#163 - Josh Safdie

Josh Safdie joins the pod to discuss his new movie MARTY SUPREME (out now in theaters!!), his personal directorial dry run of an iconic scene with Kevin O’Leary, Mitchell Wenig asking for his costars’ autographs on the set, his theory on what consciousness is, his health goals vs. Stav’s health goals, and much more. Josh and Stav help callers including a man who just found out his girlfriend of seven months is bipolar, and a dogwalker who keeps getting aggressively hit on by a creepy doorman on her route. Watch MARTY SUPREME out now in theaters!! Thanks to our sponsors! Chubbies - https://www.chubbiesshorts.com/ promo code STAVVYSWORLD ☎️ Want to be a part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice! 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld

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• 0:45Stavros Halkias?

  Hoppa! Welcome, everybody, to Stavvy's World. 904-800-Stav. Call in. We'll solve all your problems. On the couch today, we're very happy to have Josh Shafty. Josh, thanks for coming.

• 1:00Speaker 03

  What's up, everybody?

• 1:01Stavros Halkias?

  Directed, an absolute banger. We got the limited-edition popcorn bucket.

• 1:05Speaker 03

  Did you ever have popcorn in it?

• 1:05Stavros Halkias?

  That's where you got it. I had popcorn out of it. Oh, yeah. I got it at the premiere.

• 1:10Speaker 03

  Someone I know had it, and they still have the popcorn in it. They didn't know, they never opened it.

• 1:13Stavros Halkias?

  Oh.

• 1:14Speaker 03

  So, they were like, I was like, you know, there's popcorn in here.

• 1:16Stavros Halkias?

  They have vintage AMC popcorn in there.

• 1:18Speaker 03

  When I was a kid, me and Benny were like, we're gonna put a bunch of, we're gonna, like, store the candy. So, we stored all the candy in this, like, in our drawer.

• 1:28Stavros Halkias?

  Post-Halloween you're talking, or just general candies?

• 1:31Speaker 03

  I think it was actually, yeah. But it went from Halloween all the way to, like, December.

• 1:34Stavros Halkias?

  Love that.

• 1:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, you opened up that drawer, it was probably like a million cockroaches in there. It was horrible.

• 1:39Stavros Halkias?

  Candy never lasted in the Halke's household.

• 1:41Speaker 03

  But no, I'm happy you got this right here.

• 1:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, dude, it went fast.

• 1:44Speaker 03

  Candy never lasted?

• 1:44Stavros Halkias?

  No, dude.

• 1:45Speaker 03

  Did you ever, did you organize it, like Bounty, at the end of Halloween?

• 1:48Stavros Halkias?

  It got one organization, and then it was all hands-on.

• 1:50Speaker 03

  Then it was just rappers.

• 1:51Stavros Halkias?

  It was, yeah, me and my bro, I, I obviously have a food addiction. My brother has a food addiction, and then we had...

• 1:57Speaker 03

  Your brother has a food addiction, too?

• 1:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, he's, I, yes, he has it, he was always jacked, like, he runs a gym, and he's like, in, you know, I don't, he, now he's like a middle-aged dad.

• 2:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:08Stavros Halkias?

  Who's, it's finally... Caught up to him, like he always need more than me. Yeah, it's tough. Uh, but between, and then our middle brother, you know, just a normal guy.

• 2:17Speaker 03

  You think you could turn it all into insane muscle? I know you're doing the Arnold pump.

• 2:21Stavros Halkias?

  I think I can.

• 2:23Speaker 03

  But you know what? You don't want to become carrot top.

• 2:24Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, I'm never gonna get, of course, listen, bouncer body is what I want, right? Like, when I look at my-

• 2:30Speaker 03

  Bouncer body, sick.

• 2:31Stavros Halkias?

  Bouncer body, just like, you know, black t-shirt, gut, big ass arms. Big ass arms, big ass arms, uh, big arms, little titties has always been my fitness goal.

• 2:41Speaker 03

  That's sick.

• 2:41Stavros Halkias?

  And that's all I gotta get to, just like, but dude, huge.

• 2:44Speaker 03

  You want the big ones, you want the pythons.

• 2:46Stavros Halkias?

  And it works, you can be a fat guy with big arms and it doesn't take away your fat essence. Cause there is nothing worse-

• 2:51Speaker 03

  I love a fat guy so much, cause I'm somebody I could never, I just, I just can't, I can't do it. I try as much as I eat.

• 2:58Stavros Halkias?

  What was the fattest you ever were?

• 3:00Speaker 03

  Fat? Never. Fat? Like, I mean, I don't think I've ever, like, I literally, I just, I went to the doctor the other day, they're like, wow, you're good, you put on nine pounds. I was like, hell yeah. Cause I was like-

• 3:12Stavros Halkias?

  Damn dude.

• 3:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was like-

• 3:14Stavros Halkias?

  Were you, was food never a joy for you, or you just picked at it?

• 3:18Speaker 03

  I love fucking eating.

• 3:19Stavros Halkias?

  But you just couldn't-

• 3:20Speaker 03

  I love eating. I'm so nervous and anxious, and it just eats away at the, at the calories.

• 3:27Stavros Halkias?

  Like a shivery dog, like a chihuahua.

• 3:28Speaker 03

  Like a shivery dog, or like a guy who's worried he's gonna get thrown into a camp at any moment. You know what I mean? Like, I'm just like-

• 3:34Stavros Halkias?

  That's still around, I think you're okay.

• 3:38Speaker 03

  No, I'm, I'm definitely, that's part of it. It's like the constant unease of anxiety, yeah.

• 3:43Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 3:43Speaker 03

  No, so I don't, I never, like, this idea, and like, in my family too, it's just like, I don't know, I guess you'd call it luck? But like, I don't think it's lucky, I wanna be a big dude.

• 3:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe, did anybody age into it, into your family? Cause that can happen, skinny fat in your, in your older years could happen.

• 4:01Speaker 03

  A skinny fat. Skinny fat's the worst type of thing.

• 4:04Stavros Halkias?

  It's bad, but it might be on your horizon is all I'm saying. If anything is, you're not gonna become a big guy.

• 4:09Speaker 03

  You know what it is, it's like, you're talking about like, like the Grinch's body.

• 4:12Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly.

• 4:15Speaker 03

  You don't wanna be the Grinch's body.

• 4:16Stavros Halkias?

  You don't wanna be, light on his feet though, you gotta give it to the Grinch.

• 4:19Speaker 03

  Definitely light on his feet. You gotta, yeah, you gotta.

• 4:23Stavros Halkias?

  That's so fucking funny. Yeah, no, no, the popcorn got ate day of, don't you worry, there's no popcorn in there.

• 4:28Speaker 03

  Okay, good, good, good.

• 4:29Stavros Halkias?

  But I'm keeping it as a souvenir.

• 4:30Speaker 03

  And it's not even that much, if you have to, if I bought that at a, at a, at a theater, I'd be like, it's not even that much popcorn.

• 4:34Stavros Halkias?

  Can I be honest, I had that, I had that fat thought where I was like, this is awesome, but I'm like, I'm three minutes in, it's gone.

• 4:42Speaker 03

  Thank you for this, can I also have my bag of popcorn?

• 4:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I almost thought, then it looks like you're getting more to resell them, right? It looks like you're a guy who's like trying to put this shit on Depop or some shit.

• 4:54Speaker 03

  For sure, no, all that stuff.

• 4:55Stavros Halkias?

  I just wanted the popcorn, but I stuck to one.

• 4:58Speaker 03

  Someone was like, I forgot what they were saying, they were like, uh, they were like, can I get a Marty jacket? I was like, I don't even have a Marty jacket.

• 5:06Stavros Halkias?

  Damn.

• 5:06Speaker 03

  And I was like, you wanna wear Marty, you don't see any type of, and he was like, I wanna sell it. They were like, straight up, I was like, I wanna sell that.

• 5:11Stavros Halkias?

  They just told you that?

• 5:12Speaker 03

  And I was like, yeah, you can, I can get like two racks for that right now. And I, and at the same time, I kind of like respected it.

• 5:18Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 5:19Speaker 03

  It's like, it will cost you nothing to get it.

• 5:21Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right.

• 5:21Speaker 03

  You're giving me $2,000. And I was like, you know what, it's like on set when I would go up to like a random extra, and I'm like, who was just, you know, great, and I cast him because I might do this? And I'll go up to him, I'm like, alright, you're gonna have a line, I'm gonna have this thing, I'm gonna walk in through here, and Timmy doesn't know what's gonna happen. And I was like, and you're gonna get like $1,200. He was like, what? Like, in that moment, he's like, I just got $1,200, and I love that.

• 5:43Stavros Halkias?

  That's gonna feel nice.

• 5:44Speaker 03

  Production didn't love that, I would just go around handing it out, like, lines out.

• 5:47Stavros Halkias?

  You're Santa Claus.

• 5:47Speaker 03

  You get $1,200, you get $1,200.

• 5:49Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's kinda fun, cuz you're like, look, I cast you cuz you have one of the most noticeably fucked up faces I've ever seen in my life.

• 5:57Speaker 03

  Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful faces.

• 5:59Stavros Halkias?

  But the upstart is, you might get $1,200 bucks to call Timmy gay or something in like 1950's accurate lingo.

• 6:07Speaker 03

  It was like, you know, when we were shooting in the bowling alley. There was just.

• 6:11Stavros Halkias?

  Loved that scene, by the way.

• 6:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, my wife, she like, we, we put Miss Kid Douglas, we used to, I used to know, I used to have a, I used to actually have an office in this building. And, uh, this guy I knew, Douglas, they had a, we were like, you know, freelance. We did like, we did commercials. If you had no budget.

• 6:28Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 6:29Speaker 03

  So like, if you had like thirty grand to do a taxi TV commercial and you had no one to go to, you came to us.

• 6:35Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah.

• 6:35Speaker 03

  And we would spend four hundred dollars on it and keep the money. And we'd split it amongst ourselves. That was our whole thing.

• 6:41Stavros Halkias?

  Love that.

• 6:41Speaker 03

  But it was our aesthetic, you know what I mean? So people were like, oh yeah, you're getting that gritty aesthetic. It's like, that gritty aesthetic was purely financial.

• 6:47Stavros Halkias?

  Love that, dude. Yeah, yeah.

• 6:48Speaker 03

  But we were, we would do, so we were, but we were also trying to make feature films. So we were like, pretty serious and we would do that stuff, like an HP printer commercial, whatever.

• 6:57Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 6:58Speaker 03

  That stuff was like, we knew we were paying bills and we were trying to make these feature films. But there was this guy, I don't want to bring him up because he ended up moving upstate near that bowling alley and helped us find a lot of local people. But he had a model agency on the floor and we were just kinda like, um, we were so, we were so mean about it. We were kinda like, it's model people, coming in, he'd have this huge row of models sitting there like waiting to come and get their photo taken. We getting out of the elevator going, coming from our deli and we'd be like, so like nasty, stomping, stomping through. And then one day, oh yeah, one day, uh, have you ever smelled Liquid Ass, like the prank Liquid Ass?

• 7:34Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, sure. Fart spray.

• 7:35Speaker 03

  No, this was Liquid, fart spray I got in trouble for in elementary school.

• 7:40Speaker 03

  I remember, I remember.

• 7:41Stavros Halkias?

  Fart bombs, you shook them up, remember those?

• 7:43Speaker 03

  Fart spray was a spray, right? And I remember I had this principal, Principal Miss Levy, she, I, she came in, because the girl I sprayed, sprayed it near, like got on it and she claimed it like, she claimed, she claimed it, it burned her, but it didn't.

• 7:57Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 7:57Speaker 03

  She just didn't like me.

• 7:58Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 7:59Speaker 03

  And, uh, I loved her, that's why I did it. I loved her.

• 8:02Stavros Halkias?

  Classic little kid stuff.

• 8:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, we're talking about like third grade, you know what I mean? I loved her so much.

• 8:05Stavros Halkias?

  You put that in, uh.

• 8:07Speaker 03

  It's in Daddy Longlegs, man. Good fucking memory. So, uh, and anyway, so she crunched that fucking can in her hand. She's like, rah, why'd you do this?

• 8:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 8:16Speaker 03

  But anyway, so we had Liquid Ass. Liquid Ass is worse because. This is one of the worst smelling things I've ever smelled. It's pretty bad.

• 8:23Stavros Halkias?

  Is it the rotten egg one?

• 8:24Speaker 03

  No, it's called Liquid Ass. Comes in a white bottle. The drawing is like, drawn by like a 10 year old. And it looks like, like the type of person who would come up with Liquid Ass. And it was so bad, you had to keep it in a Ziploc bag.

• 8:37Stavros Halkias?

  Oh wow.

• 8:37Speaker 03

  And I remember like,

• 8:38Stavros Halkias?

  Double bag.

• 8:40Speaker 03

  Benny had it in the Ziploc bag and he was like, we can't keep it out because you'd smell it. So we went out there, right? And we, we hit the carpet a few times. And, and then we put a camera at the end of the hallway. And you have all these people who are coming in to be like, I don't know, in the next like guest jeans ad or something. And they're like, ooh.

• 8:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 9:01Speaker 03

  And like, no one wants to say like, did somebody rip ass?

• 9:04Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 9:04Speaker 03

  Because,

• 9:05Stavros Halkias?

  Because they're all models.

• 9:06Speaker 03

  They're trying to be like, you know, we don't fart.

• 9:08Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 9:08Speaker 03

  You know what I mean? And like, we, so like,

• 9:10Stavros Halkias?

  We're not, we're like, beauty incarnate. We're not human beings.

• 9:14Speaker 03

  Exactly. Who was the, who was the, the thigh master?

• 9:19Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, Suzanne Somers?

• 9:20Speaker 03

  Yes, I believe so. She said she had never farted. I remember like hearing that. It's like, how's that possible?

• 9:25Stavros Halkias?

  Come on Suzanne.

• 9:26Speaker 03

  You can't.

• 9:27Stavros Halkias?

  Didn't she do some weird diet too? She was, she was plugging like the, some kind of,

• 9:31Speaker 03

  Maybe you diet like,

• 9:32Stavros Halkias?

  Some kind of protein heavy diet. You're farting on an all protein diet. I think it was South Beach. Was that her eldest? What do we got?

• 9:37Speaker 03

  Sounds perfect.

• 9:38Stavros Halkias?

  Is that South Beach?

• 9:39Speaker 04

  I'm seeing, uh, it's called summer sizing.

• 9:42Speaker 03

  Summer sizing.

• 9:42Speaker 04

  Focuses on food combining and eliminating sugar slash processed carbs.

• 9:46Stavros Halkias?

  No sugar?

• 9:47Speaker 03

  That's like a keto type thing, right?

• 9:48Stavros Halkias?

  Keto, you're ripping ass. I've never done any of these. She's out of her mind.

• 9:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, you're not. Well, maybe she meant I never do it outside of the bathroom.

• 9:58Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe, perhaps.

• 9:58Speaker 03

  Like, you'll never hear me rip one.

• 10:00Stavros Halkias?

  Which I could, yeah, still a lie, but at least feasible, at least feasible.

• 10:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, so maybe S, SBVs?

• 10:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yes. A couple of silence, absolutely. Sneak them in.

• 10:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 10:11Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, who knows? The thigh master, I don't know what kind of Kegel control that gives you too.

• 10:17Stavros Halkias?

  Who knows? So man, you know what Suzanne? Let us know, maybe we're wrong. I remember, you know what's so funny?

• 10:22Speaker 03

  Where is she nowadays? Does it say on the internet what she's up to?

• 10:25Stavros Halkias?

  I, I saw, and here's another hilarious fat memory, that she, I remember her on Jay Leno. This is how I remember this diet that was protein heavy. She had like a chicken wing recipe. And as just a fat child, watching Jay Leno, I was like, damn, that sounds awesome.

• 10:42Speaker 03

  Was it a good one?

• 10:43Stavros Halkias?

  To this day, I don't know. I just remember hearing about chicken wings 25 years ago. And that's locked in now. I mean, that, these are what I remember. I mean, I wasn't, I would watch all the late night shows. Conan was my favorite, but yeah, that's what, that and like Kevin Eubanks laughing was amazing.

• 11:01Speaker 03

  He's the man. Conan was the best. Yeah.

• 11:03Stavros Halkias?

  That show was so good.

• 11:03Speaker 03

  I worked on, I produced If I Had Legs I Kick You, and that was like, just working with him was, oh man, he's.

• 11:09Stavros Halkias?

  He's so good.

• 11:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, cuz he is a therapist. That was like so easy for him. That's why Mary was like, it was, it, she didn't have to really, obviously she had to work with him. But like, he is just that. He did a, he came up to me, he was like, Abel Ferrera's in your movie. I was like, yeah. Everyone out there right now, save, bookmark Abel Ferrera, Conan O'Brien. Abel.

• 11:30Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, I remember that one.

• 11:32Speaker 03

  Abel's got a little red flower and he's.

• 11:34Stavros Halkias?

  He's fucked up.

• 11:34Speaker 03

  He's on cloud nine on that one. He's just in the clouds.

• 11:37Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 11:38Speaker 03

  Uh, and when I worked with him and Daddy Long Legs, he's sober now, he's cool.

• 11:42Stavros Halkias?

  Alright, you keep casting him as criminals.

• 11:44Speaker 03

  His book, his book, yeah, I remember. His book's amazing scene, it's, it's, shout out Abel Ferrera.

• 11:50Stavros Halkias?

  Director Commentaries. Director Commentary of King of New York?

• 11:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's pretty wild. You just give him some money and he'll do that.

• 11:57Stavros Halkias?

  He's just talking about how much he wants to fuck every like actress in it. Oh my god, what a piece of ass. Imagine you walk in, she says, oh baby, I'm happy to see you. He's just like fantasizing about his life. It's so good.

• 12:12Speaker 03

  Abel, Abel at that period in his life was not a present person. He was, I mean, maybe he was too present and drugs like messed him up. He's so different now. I didn't really know, I knew him, I worked at a video store. Uh, and he lived above a, um, Italian restaurant called La Mela on Mulberry Street. Real garlic oil spot. Like, everything is baked cake and garlic. I liked it, it was good. Uh, and he lived above the restaurant, like probably rent free. They loved him a little Italy. They love him in Italy. He lives there now.

• 12:42Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, really?

• 12:42Speaker 03

  And he's like, he was not a sober person. I didn't, I don't think he ever even, we worked together. I don't think he knew my name. Like, he would call me his director, only because he didn't know my name. He would be like, oh, this is my director. And I'm like, someone's beating me. I'm like 25 years old and can. He's like, that's my director right here. I was like, I'm thinking this guy does not know my name at all, like, at all.

• 13:02Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 13:03Speaker 03

  But that's so like the lifestyle he was living.

• 13:05Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 13:05Speaker 03

  So he would come into the video store to borrow money. That was like his thing.

• 13:09Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 13:10Speaker 03

  And he, he and I talked about this. And one time he came in and he was just like, he really wanted to borrow some money and he liked the, this friend of this, this girl Coco was working there at the time. And she was like, I can't, I gotta call the boss if you want to do the mic. I gotta call him. He's like, well, I don't know. You don't have to call Mike. You don't have to call Mike.

• 13:25Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. Don't tell Mike about this.

• 13:27Speaker 03

  20 bucks, 20 bucks.

• 13:27Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:28Speaker 03

  So then whatever. And then like, but then on Sunday, he'd bring a cut, like a rough cut of Go Go Tales, the film, the film movie. And we'd all be, he'd be showing it to us and he'd spend like three hours talking to us about making the movie. So he was a, always a really, really, really.

• 13:42Stavros Halkias?

  That's pretty sick.

• 13:43Speaker 03

  Like sweet, giving guy, but he was a drug addict. So like, he could, you know, get himself into trouble just from like, just not being like there.

• 13:52Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, of course.

• 13:52Speaker 03

  So when we were making the movie together, he was like, I want my money up front. I was like, no way.

• 13:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 13:56Speaker 03

  No way. No way. And, and then I remember he, I was like, I told, uh, the casting, uh, I told, I told, she was in the movie too. I told her, I was like, look, go and meet him and give him the $75 half up front. And this is a no budget movie.

• 14:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:14Speaker 03

  And, and she.

• 14:15Stavros Halkias?

  He's playing hardball with $150.

• 14:18Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 14:18Stavros Halkias?

  I can't trust an acclaimed director.

• 14:21Speaker 03

  75. The second he got the 75, he's like, all right, pull over over here. And she was like, whoa, whoa, what's going on? He goes, I just gotta make a quick stop. He went into the flower district, disappeared behind some like exotic ferns.

• 14:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 14:31Speaker 03

  And then she was texting me. She's like, I don't, I think we lost him. I was like, what? He was in the cab. She's like. I think it's done. And then he came back out, you know, whatever.

• 14:40Stavros Halkias?

  Sure.

• 14:41Speaker 03

  He did his thing.

• 14:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 14:42Speaker 03

  And then he came and he was, he was amazing, but like, he was an incredible, he made the scene better. He asked all the right questions. He made the character totally lived in.

• 14:51Stavros Halkias?

  Mm-hmm.

• 14:51Speaker 03

  Uh, and at the end.

• 14:52Stavros Halkias?

  This is Daddy Longlets.

• 14:53Speaker 03

  Daddy Longlets, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, he robs Ronnie in it.

• 14:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 14:56Speaker 03

  And Ronnie's like, I don't think he has, when I met, when he met Ronnie later, when we were doing, I forgot what. I was like, this Ronnie, right? I was like, you guys have met before and he had no idea who Ronnie was.

• 15:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 15:05Speaker 03

  That's the lifestyle he was living.

• 15:06Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 15:07Speaker 03

  He was blowing through people. He didn't know what was going on. But now he's a totally different guy.

• 15:10Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 15:10Speaker 03

  He's like super, he sends me like Buddhist scriptures and, and, uh, and when he showed up to set that one day, he was like, uh, I was like, you know, so used to knowing him as this other person and it's who I was kinda casting.

• 15:23Stavros Halkias?

  Mm.

• 15:24Speaker 03

  Even though I had kinda gotten to know him, uh, differently over the years on WhatsApp. But like, WhatsApp's a whole other world.

• 15:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:30Speaker 03

  Uh, WhatsApp is.

• 15:31Stavros Halkias?

  That's like immigrant aunt.

• 15:32Speaker 03

  That's my, my dad.

• 15:32Stavros Halkias?

  Texting, yeah, yeah.

• 15:33Speaker 03

  WhatsApp only, yeah.

• 15:35Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. Greek people don't even have, they have Viber.

• 15:37Speaker 03

  I don't even know what that is.

• 15:38Stavros Halkias?

  Which sounds, it sounds like a competitor to Grindr.

• 15:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:41Stavros Halkias?

  It doesn't sound like a wholesome texting app.

• 15:43Speaker 03

  Viber.

• 15:44Stavros Halkias?

  Viber really feels like a hookup.

• 15:45Speaker 03

  Is that a, is that a, is that like an exclusively non-English language thing?

• 15:49Stavros Halkias?

  I just think it's a, it's like a ve, it's a bootleg WhatsApp essentially.

• 15:53Speaker 03

  I see, I see.

• 15:54Stavros Halkias?

  All my relatives at least are Viber people, so I never got on WhatsApp.

• 15:57Speaker 03

  Are you on Viber?

• 15:58Stavros Halkias?

  I'm on Viber.

• 15:59Speaker 03

  You have to be, right?

• 15:59Stavros Halkias?

  I'm on Viber, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:00Speaker 03

  What's the app look like?

• 16:01Stavros Halkias?

  It's pur, it's pretty much WhatsApp but purple.

• 16:04Speaker 03

  But purple, alright.

• 16:05Stavros Halkias?

  I get a lot of Greek memes.

• 16:07Speaker 03

  Nice.

• 16:07Stavros Halkias?

  Lot of stuff about, you know.

• 16:08Speaker 03

  Crushed and they're super crushed, right? Like they're like nine times shared.

• 16:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:11Speaker 03

  One time I got a, I got a, I got a WhatsApp message from my Syrian grandmother who doesn't speak English.

• 16:18Stavros Halkias?

  Mm-hmm.

• 16:18Speaker 03

  Uh, it was French is her language. Although she and her husband, they are born in Syria. They spoke, they argued in Arabic. They spoke most of their language, like their conversations in French. When they would get like romantic, they would break into Italian.

• 16:33Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 16:33Speaker 03

  And then English was just reserved for like, their two weird grandchildren who were not born in there.

• 16:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:39Speaker 03

  But, but, uh, I'll get a meme from her, some like weird ass meme. She's 90 something.

• 16:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 16:44Speaker 03

  And I'll see it's been shared 295 times.

• 16:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:48Speaker 03

  And you're just like, whoa, this is like, and I look forward to my friend.

• 16:51Stavros Halkias?

  Making the rounds.

• 16:51Speaker 03

  One time it would be like 1,200 times.

• 16:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, dude.

• 16:54Speaker 03

  And she's like so like misguided, like she'll get like hit with some fake news and run with it.

• 16:59Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 16:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 17:00Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, my, I don't know, I think my aunt has learned how to like, um, It's like a template and it's like nice, so it's like flowers and it's like

• 17:11Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 17:12Stavros Halkias?

  Nice writing, but then, but then she

• 17:13Speaker 03

  You can add to it, she can

• 17:14Stavros Halkias?

  She will then put horrific shit in it. So it'll be like bunnies and like, and she'll be like, you should be ashamed, you should respect your father more. And it's like, and it's like, it's like, it's like, a child who doesn't respect his parents is worth nothing. And it's like lilacs and a meadow.

• 17:31Speaker 03

  Unbelievable.

• 17:32Stavros Halkias?

  And it's like, it was just like, this is how, you couldn't just write that, you had to find the template.

• 17:37Speaker 03

  She knew she had to reach you.

• 17:38Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 17:39Speaker 03

  She's like, I need the memes.

• 17:40Stavros Halkias?

  Imagery, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 17:41Speaker 03

  Memes are powerful.

• 17:42Stavros Halkias?

  A powerful image, yeah.

• 17:43Speaker 03

  Memes are powerful, memetic power.

• 17:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. The symbolism got me. And it did make me laugh. You, like, if I had seen that, it wasn't to me, I'm okay with my family now, but, uh, you know, it's inter-family drama or whatever. And if I would have seen that from my aunt, I would have been like, I would have immediately been like, you dumb bitch. This is not your fucking problem, shut the fuck up. If she just texted that, but the fact that it had like a little bunny.

• 18:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, you were like, oh, okay.

• 18:09Stavros Halkias?

  This is pretty funny.

• 18:10Speaker 03

  She didn't write it.

• 18:11Stavros Halkias?

  She wrote it.

• 18:12Speaker 03

  Oh, okay.

• 18:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 18:13Speaker 03

  It's like a relatable meme is also interesting.

• 18:14Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, it's not relatable. She just took the, the like, template and put, and just aired out a family member.

• 18:20Speaker 03

  Do you have a go-to meme that you share with most, like, what's your meme right now?

• 18:24Stavros Halkias?

  Not really, I'm not really, I don't have like a

• 18:27Speaker 03

  You're not a meme share? I, I have like, I have a friend who like has a, he invited me to a iCloud stream. It's called, um, fuck, what is it called? It's called like, let me see what it's called. It's called like, it's, it's, it's pretty wild though. Like, every once in a while, I'll go in there and I'll be like, let me see what, let me see if I can grab something in this moment, if I can have. Here, let's see, uh, shared.

• 18:51Stavros Halkias?

  I feel like

• 18:52Speaker 03

  Seize the memes.

• 18:52Stavros Halkias?

  Seize the memes.

• 18:53Speaker 03

  But they're like, you know.

• 18:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I feel like

• 18:57Speaker 03

  Lots of crying people.

• 18:58Stavros Halkias?

  Sure. We share a lot of like, uh, like weird ultra, like, there's like guys who are trying to, like old fucked up looking dudes who are trying to tell other, like essentially cucks, how to keep the marriage spicy. So it's like a fat, ugly guy with like a cowboy hat and he's like, pull your lady over to you and tell her. And it's just like the most

• 19:20Speaker 03

  Sounds great.

• 19:21Stavros Halkias?

  But it makes your skin crawl. It's like, this is private. Like, listen, I'm glad this guy still fucks his wife, right? Good for them. I'm glad he puts on a little cowboy hat and fucks her. That's between them.

• 19:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course.

• 19:32Stavros Halkias?

  I need to know this, but he is trying to like, he thinks, it's very interesting because I think now because of everything being democratized, probably 50 years ago, in their private moments, just a guy who works a regular job considered himself like a sexy guy.

• 19:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:48Stavros Halkias?

  But that would go away. Cause you'd be like, that's a ridiculous thought. How would anybody even consider me that?

• 19:53Speaker 03

  Now they're like They're seen.

• 19:54Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe I can just put a Tik, get a TikTok going and maybe have a couple thousand followers. And it's, yeah, I'll send you this guy. He's, and he also, he became popular amongst us because he kind of looks like one of our college friends. And it's like, whoa, this guy's gonna become him. Like, cause we had a friend who was

• 20:10Speaker 03

  Oh, he's older. He's older.

• 20:11Stavros Halkias?

  He's older. And our friend, our college friend

• 20:13Speaker 03

  Do you send these to him?

• 20:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, well, I send them. You know what? I should be, I should stop being a coward and send them directly to him.

• 20:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was gonna say.

• 20:20Stavros Halkias?

  I send them to like our other friends and be like, yo.

• 20:22Speaker 03

  That's my biggest fear is like my, my, my friends sending shit about me and then they don't have the courage to share with me.

• 20:28Stavros Halkias?

  You know what? No, no.

• 20:29Speaker 03

  That sucks.

• 20:30Stavros Halkias?

  It's not even encouraging is that we have grown apart, but this might be exactly how we come back.

• 20:35Speaker 03

  Dude, that's great.

• 20:35Stavros Halkias?

  Cause I'm like, dude, cool vid. Just send him, dude, you look great in this vid.

• 20:38Speaker 03

  I've done that.

• 20:39Stavros Halkias?

  And we will connect again.

• 20:41Speaker 03

  There's a, there's

• 20:42Stavros Halkias?

  Cause he also was weirdly sexual at the time. Like he was one of those guys who fancied himself like a fucks, a fuck guy.

• 20:47Speaker 03

  Oh, okay. That's great. So then he'll, he'll remember you. He'll be like, oh, he remembers me. I feel seen right now.

• 20:52Stavros Halkias?

  He remembers my essence.

• 20:53Speaker 03

  Uh, there's a, there's, there's a hand, there's like a, like old group chats with me and like old, old friends, like teenage friends, where our entire relationship is kind of entirely based on sending the most insane looking people. Like this is you.

• 21:06Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 21:08Speaker 03

  And you're just like, every once in a while, like, for a long time, it was so endearing, but we don't talk to someone for a long time and you get, this is you, and you're like,

• 21:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 21:15Speaker 03

  Kind of lost that.

• 21:18Stavros Halkias?

  Now it's just mean, man.

• 21:19Speaker 03

  This is just feels mean.

• 21:20Stavros Halkias?

  And it gets, they get worse over time, because everyone ages a little worse. So the guys who now look like a fucked up version of you, ooh, that's tough.

• 21:29Speaker 03

  I'm not kind of getting there a little bit, because they were always like also so older and you're just like, huh, that's kind of a little too close to the, close to the bone right now.

• 21:37Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. No, you're right. You pay for that with the actual currency of intimacy.

• 21:43Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, exactly.

• 21:44Stavros Halkias?

  But when that's gone, don't, don't find any fat guy with a wallet.

• 21:48Speaker 03

  It might work, yeah. It might work, though.

• 21:50Stavros Halkias?

  This, I think we can, I'll, I'll keep you posted.

• 21:52Speaker 03

  Were you super tight?

• 21:53Stavros Halkias?

  We were boys, yeah, yeah. And it would actually be a good night. And every time we see each other, we're pumped.

• 21:57Speaker 03

  In a way, it could be like, like, there was a, I have a, I have a, I have, we, I'm, I, one of my oldest friends, we were really tight with this other person. And that person is no, they're neither in either of our lives. So one time I saw him, he looked at me, goes, did you hear he lost a thumb? And I was like, whoa, he lost a thumb? Like, that's serious, that's life changing.

• 22:17Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 22:17Speaker 03

  And he goes, no, he didn't, but he could have.

• 22:21Speaker 03

  And I thought that was so funny. I thought that was so funny.

• 22:23Stavros Halkias?

  He could be a completely different guy.

• 22:25Speaker 03

  Just like, but then in that moment, I was like, oh, my God, man, this guy knew so, he doesn't have a thumb anymore.

• 22:30Stavros Halkias?

  Dominant thumb.

• 22:31Speaker 03

  Can't pick shit up and like, that's hard.

• 22:33Stavros Halkias?

  Pre-hensile.

• 22:34Speaker 03

  That's like a real, like, anyone who loses a thumb, I'm so like, you know, I feel for you.

• 22:39Stavros Halkias?

  Because you fall below, like, ape, you know, because that's what sets us, apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.

• 22:45Speaker 03

  From the food chain. Yeah, exactly. Well, no, I guess, uh, you know, lots of opposites.

• 22:49Stavros Halkias?

  There's more brain, but you know what I mean? There's a lot more, but thumb is tough.

• 22:54Speaker 03

  Lying, lying keeps us outside the food chain.

• 22:57Stavros Halkias?

  True.

• 22:57Speaker 03

  Lying, lying does. Because you can be like,

• 23:00Stavros Halkias?

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• 24:24Stavros Halkias?

  Are you a part of any unions? Unions? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're SAG, that's SAG. Yeah, yeah. SAG, the SAG doesn't have a magazine, right? They don't have like a mailer magazine? It's too big of a union to have the magazine. I'm not, they send stuff, but I don't know if they send a magazine. DGA has a magazine. Okay. And it's, I don't have magazine, I don't get magazine subscriptions anymore. Every time I like, there is a, like a foreign, like Japan, they're really big on magazine culture. And like I've been in Japan, I've shot a movie in Japan, I love Japanese culture, so I make them. I was like, I'll do this thing, but you have to send me for life a subscription. But it still comes through customs. It's not easy for them, but I get Japanese magazines and I like, love that. But the only other thing I get is the DGA Monthly. I love it. Yeah. I love it. So I always like, always like trying to reach out and be like, hey, I'll write some stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 25:09Stavros Halkias?

  I love trade magazines. I know what you mean. And like, so like getting mail, it's like, oh, I get some mail. Well, imagine. Amazon's not mail. It's not mail. No, it's Amazon. It's Amazon, and you feel bad. Yeah. That's the thing, when you get an Amazon package, you're like, I did need. This within two days.

• 25:24Speaker 03

  Within twelve hours.

• 25:25Stavros Halkias?

  And I feel bad. And it's like, this is help, you know, now I can, you know, whatever, wash dishes or whatever.

• 25:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly.

• 25:31Stavros Halkias?

  And now I can, now I, now I get a heating pad. No, I got this from CVS.

• 25:34Speaker 03

  eBay?

• 25:34Stavros Halkias?

  eBay's not. eBay's mail.

• 25:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, eBay's mail.

• 25:37Stavros Halkias?

  Because you have to pay for it. It's not free shipping.

• 25:39Speaker 03

  No, it's not.

• 25:40Stavros Halkias?

  You're paying seven ninety-five.

• 25:41Speaker 03

  Uh, how lo- how long are you, are you a big eBay-er? You definitely are.

• 25:44Stavros Halkias?

  I'm back in the zone with eBay in a major way.

• 25:45Speaker 03

  Love eBay, man. eBay is like, you can just, you can educate yourself on eBay.

• 25:50Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 25:51Speaker 03

  Go through people's, it's like Soulseek. I'm still deep on Soulseek.

• 25:54Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, hell yeah.

• 25:55Speaker 03

  And you can like, you add the user to list, then you just browse their files.

• 25:57Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 25:58Speaker 03

  It's like a whole other person's thing. Go to an eBay seller. They got some good stuff. Go to their store. Some people, they're just selling shit out of their house. It's like portraits of their lives.

• 26:07Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 26:07Speaker 03

  One guy accidentally sent me, I bought a, a little rug, a little bath mat. Not a bath mat. It was like a, like a welcome rug.

• 26:14Stavros Halkias?

  Mm-hmm.

• 26:15Speaker 03

  And instead, I got a huge box of early Audis, early aughts PC games. It was a huge box. It was so heavy.

• 26:26Stavros Halkias?

  Damn.

• 26:27Speaker 03

  Not using that, but they were like, all like mystery themed and like tourist themed.

• 26:32Stavros Halkias?

  That puts me back, because I was a PC games guy, actually.

• 26:34Speaker 03

  Oh, you were? Yeah.

• 26:35Stavros Halkias?

  Because we didn't have the internet. We got a computer, but my parents wouldn't give us the internet.

• 26:39Speaker 03

  What was your big PC game? I, what about, do you remember You Don't Know Jack? Do you remember that game? How old were you?

• 26:44Stavros Halkias?

  It's a trivia game, right?

• 26:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:45Stavros Halkias?

  I'm thirty-six.

• 26:46Speaker 03

  I'm forty-one, I'm old. It was a trivia game, like.

• 26:48Stavros Halkias?

  I remember that game.

• 26:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was cool.

• 26:49Stavros Halkias?

  It was a bald guy, right?

• 26:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a good game, but I, I didn't really.

• 26:53Stavros Halkias?

  Kind of, Jack was kind of preparing us for the Blue Man Group, I feel like. You know, you paint Jack blue.

• 26:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, he would have been.

• 26:59Stavros Halkias?

  It kind of.

• 26:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, I didn't, but I could never got video games. I never got.

• 27:02Stavros Halkias?

  Sims, Sims City.

• 27:03Speaker 03

  Sims City. I never got into Sims. Sims City, I loved. You can just like, build the sickest city and then just destroy it.

• 27:09Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're playing God.

• 27:10Speaker 03

  UFO Invasion and like.

• 27:12Stavros Halkias?

  Well, just, it just turns into.

• 27:13Speaker 03

  I just love designing the cities, but I never got into video games.

• 27:16Stavros Halkias?

  Mm.

• 27:16Speaker 03

  And you know why? Like, if I play GTA, I'm just getting five stars. That's it. I just want the government after me.

• 27:20Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. It's fun.

• 27:21Speaker 03

  That's all I'm doing.

• 27:22Stavros Halkias?

  You could do that for hours.

• 27:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, you can. Just get on there.

• 27:24Stavros Halkias?

  It's pretty fun. I mean, that's how I played GTA, and I did play it for hours.

• 27:27Speaker 03

  Do you do the, do you do the narrative stuff, though? Do you do?

• 27:29Stavros Halkias?

  I would do some of it. Yeah, yeah.

• 27:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, I just never like, like, damn, I, my, my composer, he's super into like indie video games. Timmy is as well.

• 27:37Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 27:37Speaker 03

  Uh, you know, and like, I have, like Tyler's, like Tyler would, like my early, you know. Bonding with him was him coming over and me just watching him play GT.

• 27:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's fun too though.

• 27:48Speaker 03

  And then he would have all the breaks and the hacks, he'd create his own character.

• 27:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get unlimited guns, get exploding bullets.

• 27:53Speaker 03

  Exactly, yeah.

• 27:53Stavros Halkias?

  Fun stuff.

• 27:54Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 27:55Stavros Halkias?

  No, a lot of our youth-

• 27:56Speaker 03

  I never was like a video game person, so when this box arrived, I was like, man.

• 27:58Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 27:59Speaker 03

  And I wrote the guy, I was like, "You didn't send the rug." He said, "Yes, I did." I was like, "This is what you sent and I'm not returning it." Because it was so heavy.

• 28:05Stavros Halkias?

  I don't want it and I want the rug.

• 28:08Speaker 03

  It's fine, it's fine. There was junk that I was selling anyway. Because it's like, for me, I have to go to the post office and return that thing.

• 28:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 28:16Speaker 03

  It's like, you just, whatever. So bad. But eBay is, eBay is a-

• 28:19Stavros Halkias?

  It's nice, I mean, listen.

• 28:20Speaker 03

  I wanted to keep going. People like Etsy.

• 28:23Stavros Halkias?

  Etsy's fine, but it does get-

• 28:25Speaker 03

  It's a different vibe. The logo's different, too.

• 28:26Stavros Halkias?

  It also is getting, a lot of fake bullshit gets on there. A lot of like, mass-produced shit gets on there.

• 28:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, like early startup stuff.

• 28:34Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. Or just someone's screen printing. eBay will do like, because here's why I'm there. I'm trying to find vintage Hawaiian shirts.

• 28:41Speaker 03

  A hundred percent, I see.

• 28:42Stavros Halkias?

  That's number, that's number one why I'm at eBay.

• 28:44Speaker 03

  The Cami Mutombo Knicks jersey.

• 28:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, exactly. A weird bobblehead, a weird, I got a Christmas tree, a weird like, I need ornaments.

• 28:51Speaker 03

  You got a Christmas tree on eBay?

• 28:51Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no. But I needed ornaments. I got some fun like Simpsons Christmas vintage ornaments, you know, that kind of shit. Anything where it is a person putting it, taking it out of their, some weird storage in their shitty house and putting it in a weird box. I love when it comes like a shoebox.

• 29:08Speaker 03

  Oh yeah, the best.

• 29:09Stavros Halkias?

  It's awesome.

• 29:09Speaker 03

  Oh, the best. You know, it's like it's taped up the wrong way.

• 29:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 29:13Speaker 03

  From like, like a Liz Claiborne.

• 29:17Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 29:19Speaker 03

  And I'm like, I didn't order a pair of shoes.

• 29:22Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 29:22Speaker 03

  Like, no, this looks like it could be a bomb. It's probably from eBay.

• 29:25Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's good stuff. I love that, yeah.

• 29:27Speaker 03

  And then they'll use the weirdest shit to pack it, like some dirty socks. Or if you buy, if you buy records, which I buy a lot of records, you get the, they, they, they, they pay, you get the record you want and then the both sides is the most like, destroyed record of like, it's like, you know, like a- A thriller record. Like, oh wow, he sent me a thriller record too, but you open it up and it's just like a million scratches on it. So it's just, but I like, I like, but you get to see more of who that person is.

• 29:55Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 29:55Speaker 03

  The packing, packing style.

• 29:56Stavros Halkias?

  And that's true. We, we have, everything is so sanitized where it's like, I want a little fucking junk.

• 30:02Speaker 03

  I want to feel the person.

• 30:03Stavros Halkias?

  And it's nice when you, and even waiting for not two day shipping, you're like, first of all, it's funny because

• 30:09Speaker 03

  You do StockX and stuff like that?

• 30:11Stavros Halkias?

  I used to a little bit, yeah.

• 30:12Speaker 03

  I used to sell the free shit that I would get. I would sell it with my boy.

• 30:15Stavros Halkias?

  The Marty Supreme jacket.

• 30:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:16Stavros Halkias?

  You're, you're basically the guy who asked you for the jacket.

• 30:20Speaker 03

  Dude, don't joke. Like, I remember I was, when there was like, at one point, I was like, I was like selling posters and stuff.

• 30:27Stavros Halkias?

  Well, there was definitely a point in your life where you were cooler than you had money.

• 30:31Speaker 03

  Exactly. So you were like, alright, I got this merch thing.

• 30:34Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 30:35Speaker 03

  You know, maybe I'll sign it.

• 30:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, there you go. Isn't that so funny? You have no money in the bank, but doing this could make you eighty dollars?

• 30:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, and then there's like, and then, you know, I know, I, I put, uh, autograph, uh, big autograph collector, but he doesn't sell. In, in Marty, he's also in Gems. He's the, this fucking guy, that guy. And he gets, in, in Gems, in, in Gems, he's the guy who Howard keeps like pushing away.

• 31:00Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, yes, yes.

• 31:01Speaker 03

  And in Marty, he's able, he plays like, kind of like the sidekick dude.

• 31:05Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, oh, that guy's incredible.

• 31:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's amazing. He's an amazing guy, really special, really unique person.

• 31:10Stavros Halkias?

  Incredible look, like.

• 31:11Speaker 03

  He went to high school with my mom and I was like, I was like, do you remember my mom?

• 31:15Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, he's an autograph guy?

• 31:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's an autograph guy. Yeah, there was a great photo of him like at the airport with Rihanna. Uh, and he's in the background. And I said to him like, cause, well, what's interesting about, well, what's crazy about him in the movie is he's in the movie, in Marty.

• 31:27Stavros Halkias?

  Fully.

• 31:28Speaker 03

  And I saw him outside of Gwyneth's trailer once. And I was like, Mitchell, what are you doing here, man? And he's like, is that not okay? And I was like. No, you're a, you're her co-star.

• 31:39Stavros Halkias?

  You're a colleague, brother.

• 31:41Speaker 03

  He's like, I got this picture from Emma, I really wanted to get her to sign. And I was like, you can't do it, it's not a good look. And I was like, I'll get it signed for you, right? And then I was like, I was like, cause I love Mitchell and like, and his collection is not for sale.

• 31:53Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, okay.

• 31:53Speaker 03

  So he's got a great collection. He used to trade with Johnny Ramone.

• 31:56Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome, yeah.

• 31:57Speaker 03

  He's a really special, unique guy. One of one, no one like him.

• 32:01Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 32:02Speaker 03

  And I was like, I'll get it signed for you, I promise. So then like I put it and I gave it to somebody. And I was like, we have to make sure that Gwyneth signs this. And that was my mistake is I didn't do it myself and I'm really ashamed. And then it got bent. And he was like, it got bent? And I was like, I'm so sorry, I'll find another one. He goes, there is no other one. So then I made it up for him in other ways. But I was just like, when I saw him outside the, his brother too, his brother always tries to get me to put music in the movies and they have a band together and they're so, they're so sick, they like make these like kinda surf like pop songs.

• 32:33Stavros Halkias?

  I'm interested in this big time, yeah.

• 32:35Speaker 03

  But then he didn't give me a CD on this one. Give me a CD on everyone, he'll give it to me. And this one, he actually really nice at table tennis. And he's like, I'm really good, you should put me in the movies. I was like, all right, well you gotta get your hair cut. And he's like, won't do it. I was like, you're not gonna be in the movie then. He's like, all right. But then he like showed up on the day we were shooting in the table tennis parlor and snuck into the background of the scene. Wearing like full 2025 clothing. And I'm looking in the background and I'm like, Stuart? And I watch him, Stuart's like, Stewie, what are you doing? He's like, I'm good, I told you I'm good. I was like, 1952.

• 33:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, you're wearing a Nietzsche.

• 33:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, like he can't be in it, he's like, all right. And he's like intimidating, his brother's an intimidating guy. I remember we were on set, shooting the scene where they're in the park. And he just out of, him and his brother were having a fight. Out of spite, he would not hold his keys for the take. So Mitchell came up to me, I'm watching, he's like, just hold my keys. Stuart's like, I'm not gonna do it, I'm sorry. And I was like, Stuart, just hold the fucking keys. He's like, nope, not gonna do it. So I was like, and Mitchell's like, will you hold my keys? Like, sure, and he gives me like the biggest set of keys. So I'm like, oh man.

• 33:35Stavros Halkias?

  A janitor's ring, a wallet and stuff like that.

• 33:37Speaker 03

  But, uh, but Mitch is great. And I was like getting Mitch to go kinda like prod, get between them a little bit. But then I was at Odessa's house. Shooting this thing for promo or whatever. And it was like a tour of her house. And she's like, oh, wow, this is the CD that Stuart made. I was like, he didn't give me a CD.

• 33:54Stavros Halkias?

  Wow, you're off the CD list.

• 33:56Speaker 03

  And then it was like, oh, whole album about Odessa.

• 34:00Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, no.

• 34:02Speaker 03

  It was just, it was just like about how he loved the character, the muse. And he was like, Odessa Azaya. It was amazing. The music was amazing.

• 34:12Stavros Halkias?

  That's fucking awesome.

• 34:14Speaker 03

  She had a CD player.

• 34:15Stavros Halkias?

  Holy shit.

• 34:15Speaker 03

  And I told Mitch, I was like, Mitch, like, you didn't tell me. He's like, oh, yes, Stuart made that, that CD because he thought she was the best actor in the movie.

• 34:23Stavros Halkias?

  She is incredible, by the way.

• 34:24Speaker 03

  She's great, yeah. She's got a Sagnum.

• 34:26Stavros Halkias?

  Huge, huge.

• 34:27Speaker 03

  Shout out to Odessa.

• 34:28Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, dude, the whole, yeah, we got, we got a serious operation. We got whatever presets came with that. He's had the fucking thing for two years. God forbid he download a single fucking sound on it.

• 34:39Speaker 03

  From Stern.

• 34:40Stavros Halkias?

  He's getting there.

• 34:41Speaker 03

  Dude, Stern started talking about Marty yesterday. Because Mary Ann from Brooklyn is, is the, the opening of the movie. And then Razzo's in it too. And Razzo wrote Private Parts.

• 34:50Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, he wrote Private Parts?

• 34:51Speaker 03

  He wrote Private Parts.

• 34:52Stavros Halkias?

  He's great. I didn't even realize that was him.

• 34:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:54Stavros Halkias?

  He's so good.

• 34:56Speaker 03

  He's amazing. Yeah. He, I went to go see a National Lampoon thing at the New York Public Library. When they were like doing their little anniversary thing or whatever. And I'm there and I'm not laughing. Dude wasn't laughing. It's like an hour into this, 45 minutes into it, no laughs. I was like, this is pretty weird.

• 35:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 35:12Speaker 03

  National Lampoon, I guess it's not, maybe not that funny or, or, I mean, it was really funny. And then Razzo gets up there and he's reading from, they did this hilarious TV Guide spoof. Uh, actually in that TV Guide spoof, they did like, it was like an advertisement for Rocky 30. And like Rocky's like super old.

• 35:31Stavros Halkias?

  When did they do that? That was the 80s. They knew what they were doing, dude.

• 35:34Speaker 03

  They were sick. It's a really, you should get that on eBay. It's really good. But Gilbert Godfrey did the funniest jokes in it. So Razzo's like, I'm just gonna go through and I'm gonna read Gilbert Godfrey's jokes that were published. And they were the funny, he tore the house down.

• 35:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 35:48Speaker 03

  I gotta know that guy and the way he looked and everything. It's like, I gotta know that guy. And he's special. I put him in a few things and he's great. But so Razzo used to be a big part of the show. He used to call in a lot. This is like whack pack, Stern era. And Stern is just, he first of all, he only watched six minutes of the movie because the Blu-ray was grainy. I don't think that's true. And I'm texting with Gary, I'm like, Gary, get me on the air right now, I gotta like roast Howard. And I tried to get Howard in Jem somewhere. At one point, I was like, let's make Howard Howard, you know? So, but I love Mary Ann from Brooklyn, I love all the, Joey Boots, rest in peace, I used to, I put, I used to work with Joey Boots. I know all those guys. So, anyway, so he's on and I'm like, I can't believe Howard's like talking, he's done, he did Rob for a good time, he did Howard

• 36:31Speaker 03

  for Jem, so I'm like, I've got to hear him talk about my movies, but now he's like, talking about it in a real way, there's no celebrity, it's Mary Ann from Brooklyn who he's used to like Fred throwing in the wah wah, you know, and like, so, so he's, and Mary Ann's so special and she's so beautiful and I'm like, and she's so good, she was so unnatural, and he's just kind of like, he's being nice, he's like, you're pretty good, you're pretty good, and he's like, and then, and, uh, and then with Rats, so he's, he does say he's amazing, he's like, he outdoes Timmy, but he's like, this guy, man, he's like, making fun of the way he looked, he's like, he used to wear these dark sunglasses all the time, and I was like, Rats, you trying to look cool? He's like, no, no, I have sensitive eyes, he's like, no, man, you're just trying to look cool because you do not look cool. And I was like, I was texting Rats, I was like, Howard's going in on you right now.

• 37:16Speaker 03

  Anyway, no.

• 37:17Stavros Halkias?

  But it's an incre- I mean, that's the thing about, I mean, all the movies, it's like, it's like, you have the cast and it almost feels like you could do a like a getting the team together montage of you casting your movies.

• 37:32Speaker 03

  It's the best, that's my favorite part.

• 37:33Stavros Halkias?

  It's incre- like, the ki- the kinds of people you have out of nowhere.

• 37:35Speaker 03

  And Jen reached out to you and Jen knows, Jen reached out to you, right?

• 37:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 37:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, on Begonia, yeah. And you're so great, I mean, dude, that scene, the first time you dropped this little hint of like, there's some shit from the past. It's when you get to the house and you're like, listen, man. I never did that with anyone else.

• 37:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 37:54Speaker 03

  You're so good.

• 37:55Stavros Halkias?

  It was such a fun.

• 37:56Speaker 03

  But Jen was great for you to cast.

• 37:57Stavros Halkias?

  She's incredible, dude. No, she was so cool. And the work she's done on this and you guys do together.

• 38:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, she and I go deep together.

• 38:03Stavros Halkias?

  Where you find the, like, the casting of it is so cool and perfect. I mean, the one thing, and I should have known it was gonna make so much sense. But I remember when, like, I see the trailer. What's that? No, no, no, Mr. Wonderful, cuz he's a piece of shit. Cuz I'm like, fuck that guy.

• 38:20Speaker 03

  You like Shark Tank?

• 38:21Stavros Halkias?

  This is the biggest Shark Tank fan in the world.

• 38:23Speaker 04

  I've clocked a lot of Shark Tank hours.

• 38:25Speaker 03

  I mean, he's the best.

• 38:26Stavros Halkias?

  He's incredible.

• 38:27Speaker 04

  He's so good.

• 38:28Speaker 03

  But I like Cuban too, even though he's not on the show anymore. I like Barbara a lot. Barbara's always, she comes in and you're like.

• 38:34Stavros Halkias?

  I like Barbara.

• 38:34Speaker 03

  You get the sense that she picks the winners.

• 38:37Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 38:37Speaker 04

  Yeah. I like Cuban cuz he always seems like, like he's so like, not even interested. Yeah, he doesn't need to be there.

• 38:43Speaker 03

  And he has that vibe that he's the richest, which is interesting.

• 38:45Stavros Halkias?

  And he had some more, I have to admit at the after party, Cuban had some aura in a fucking sweatshirt.

• 38:49Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 38:49Stavros Halkias?

  He was out doing. Did you ever see the doc I did, Lenny Cook? You ever see that?

• 38:53Speaker 03

  So, so my producer on that, he was like, we were looking for money. And, cuz he tried to make that movie in 2001 or whatever.

• 39:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's, it's a documentary about like this phenom from New York who was.

• 39:06Speaker 03

  Supposed to be.

• 39:07Stavros Halkias?

  It's supposed to be, but he was, this was the draft class of Mello, LeBron. And at a time, I think he was number one in the draft class, early, early on.

• 39:14Speaker 03

  He was a year older than LeBron.

• 39:16Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, he was.

• 39:16Speaker 03

  Cuz I remember, yeah, and, but LeBron made his name against Lenny at ABC camp. He had, and my, my producer had the only existing footage of the shot that put LeBron on the map.

• 39:26Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 39:26Speaker 03

  Uh, and Mav Carter was going up to my producer, being like, you're focusing on the wrong guy.

• 39:30Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right.

• 39:31Speaker 03

  Uh, but really, I think he focused on the right guy. You know what I mean?

• 39:34Stavros Halkias?

  It's a really compelling documentary.

• 39:36Speaker 03

  LeBron's story is amazing and I respect him a lot for making that doc. Cuz what it takes, you know, obviously Marty is kind of about that too.

• 39:43Stavros Halkias?

  Well, I was gonna say that, that's like, I, like, it struck me as like, man, if Lenny was wired like Marty.

• 39:51Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm, oh, yeah.

• 39:52Stavros Halkias?

  We're talking about him right now, but it was like.

• 39:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, cuz Lenny had all the juice, but he had no drive.

• 39:57Stavros Halkias?

  He could, yeah, it was like, it was like this guy who. You know, it was, it was, I mean, the dream big, right? That's the Marty thing. It's like, it wasn't Lenny's dream. It was like, it was like a portrait of a guy.

• 40:07Speaker 03

  It was everybody else's dream for him.

• 40:09Stavros Halkias?

  And he just happened to have the potential, maybe, to do it.

• 40:13Speaker 03

  It's the opposite.

• 40:13Stavros Halkias?

  It's the complete opposite of Marty. It's pretty, I mean, I do, what struck me about the movie, which I fucking loved, by the way, you know, not to suck you off too much, but it was, it was like, I was like, I left inspired. And it was like, it was like, um, I mean, anyone who has, who has dedicated their life to-

• 40:30Speaker 03

  Anyone who has a podcast.

• 40:32Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 40:33Speaker 03

  You know what I mean?

• 40:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 40:33Speaker 03

  Dreams big, which is sick. And everyone should dream big. And that's why, like, that's why I love, that's why when you, like, when someone who dreams big and, and does it, is like, reacts to the movie.

• 40:45Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, it was like, I mean, that's, I'm trying to be objective because it's kind of like a movie designed for someone who's dedicated their life to their frivolous kind of dumb dream that they have a random talent for. What is podcasting if not, uh, I mean, Table tennis is more, is much, I respect it way more.

• 41:04Speaker 03

  Really?

• 41:05Stavros Halkias?

  Me personally.

• 41:06Speaker 03

  Podcasting is the new, is, is new radio.

• 41:08Stavros Halkias?

  I guess. But you're talking to a guy who-

• 41:10Speaker 03

  No, no, but I'm with you.

• 41:11Stavros Halkias?

  You know what I mean?

• 41:11Speaker 03

  No, no, no, I know, I know exactly what you're telling me.

• 41:13Stavros Halkias?

  It's a dumb, it's a, I, I, like, I was, I was like, I was like 18, my family comes here from Greece. I'm the first born who has all the like, I had, you know, I had good grades, actually, too. I went to school on scholarship and all I want to do was stand up. And it's like, I mean, that, the scenes with his mom, I've had those with my dad, the exact, like, the exact, so it was like-

• 41:35Speaker 03

  It was contention between you and your dad?

• 41:37Stavros Halkias?

  For sure, for sure.

• 41:37Speaker 03

  About, just like, but like, unspoken? Just kind of like you guys just, and he's trying to manipulate you all the time?

• 41:43Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, well, he, yes, guilt, he, guilt, guilt thing is huge. And there's a, I think I've talked about on the podcast, but there was a moment where I'm graduating college and I graduated with like, fucking honors or whatever. And I get a call from my dad and it's like, it's like, he's just sighing, he, and she's like- And I'm packing up my college apartment, right? We're about to leave and he's like, uh, I'm like, hello? Doesn't call me ever, right? I'm like, hello? And he's like, your mom says you're, uh, doing comedy? And I was like, yeah.

• 42:13Speaker 03

  You think that's funny?

• 42:14Stavros Halkias?

  And I'm actually like, kind of like, oh, is my dad asking about my like desires? And I was, he's like, I was like, oh, yeah. And he's like, oh, so it's true. I was like, yeah.

• 42:22Speaker 03

  So it's true.

• 42:23Stavros Halkias?

  And then he's like, sighs again, hangs up.

• 42:26Speaker 03

  Oh, man. What did he want you to be?

• 42:28Stavros Halkias?

  I, dude, I just had, not, that's, the irony is.

• 42:31Speaker 03

  Anything but a comedian.

• 42:31Stavros Halkias?

  The irony is.

• 42:32Speaker 03

  Now he's psyched?

• 42:33Stavros Halkias?

  If he was, I mean, yeah, now he is. But it's like, if he had just kind of given me a little leash.

• 42:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:39Stavros Halkias?

  Everything turned out how, but he wanted me to be a lawyer, just that general shit. But I just mean like as, but the, the movie was so incredible.

• 42:47Speaker 03

  You think you would have been a good lawyer?

• 42:48Stavros Halkias?

  I think I would have been okay at it.

• 42:49Speaker 03

  I can imagine this guy coming into the courtroom.

• 42:55Stavros Halkias?

  I think I would have been a kind of, some kind of crook. Like, that's the thing.

• 42:58Speaker 03

  No, I mean, or you could have been.

• 43:01Stavros Halkias?

  I really do.

• 43:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 43:02Stavros Halkias?

  I just like, because of the like, I think I would have had resentment about not being able to do what I wanted.

• 43:08Speaker 03

  Do you remember the, uh, scene in My Cousin Vinny, the guy, the lawyer who the, the, the family gets for them? Who comes in with this, I think he's got the stutter.

• 43:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yes, yes.

• 43:16Speaker 03

  And he's like, this is your family guy? Yeah.

• 43:17Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 43:18Speaker 03

  Not.

• 43:19Stavros Halkias?

  My Cousin Vinny, incredible.

• 43:20Speaker 03

  Great movie, man. I love Marisa Tomei.

• 43:22Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe the hottest person of all time on film.

• 43:25Speaker 03

  Like. Oh, my God, she's, I.

• 43:27Stavros Halkias?

  It was.

• 43:27Speaker 03

  I love her still so much to this day.

• 43:30Stavros Halkias?

  She was at the Begone after party and I was like stammering like.

• 43:32Speaker 03

  She was at the after party?

• 43:33Stavros Halkias?

  She was.

• 43:34Speaker 03

  Dude, I was like in the corner talking to, I don't even, I, I mean, it's fine. It's like, I get so, this whole thing is like, I don't, I don't ever get to like celebrate.

• 43:44Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 43:45Speaker 03

  Always just like, oh, you know, it's over.

• 43:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I did want to ask you about that too, cause I like.

• 43:49Speaker 03

  I want to tell me the, let me tell the Cuban thing for one second.

• 43:51Stavros Halkias?

  Please, oh, yeah, sorry, sorry.

• 43:52Speaker 03

  I wasn't trying to plug Lenny good.

• 43:53Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no.

• 43:53Speaker 03

  But I remember my producer wrote this like two-page email, so proud. Like this is, these are the financial opportunities. We have Mello footage, we have LeBron footage, this is to Mark Cuban, he got his email.

• 44:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, Noah was involved, right?

• 44:06Speaker 03

  Joakim Noah? Yeah, he, he was because he really knew the family that took Lenny in.

• 44:11Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 44:11Speaker 03

  And then getting Noah involved actually put the, I think the full, from what I heard, that was like, why? Because of his Cleveland comments, why LeBron never really, LeBron would like, I know LeBron's seen the movie and he likes it. Third, I never met LeBron.

• 44:27Stavros Halkias?

  Can I be honest? I don't even know that it, I think. It almost would be weird, not weird, it would've been cool to have him, but I should be like-

• 44:33Speaker 03

  To LeBron produce? No, no, no, we never wanted LeBron to produce.

• 44:35Stavros Halkias?

  I didn't mean produce, I just mean like even him being more involved, I like it as a snapshot of like, those guys are peripheral, it's better.

• 44:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, having Foxy Brown's younger brother in the movie.

• 44:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:45Speaker 03

  So, we sent this, he sent this email to Cuban. Two days later, he gets emailed, "No, thank you." Just, "No, thank you." And, but, you know what? That's funnier than ignoring. Exactly. But it's actually, in a way, it's, I respect it more. Because he could've just ignored it.

• 45:01Stavros Halkias?

  Hundred percent.

• 45:02Speaker 03

  He read it, "No, thank you." That's a gentleman's move. Exactly, so I didn't get to meet him at the, I didn't get to meet any of these amazing people.

• 45:09Stavros Halkias?

  You didn't get to meet him?

• 45:10Speaker 03

  No.

• 45:10Stavros Halkias?

  I didn't, yeah.

• 45:11Speaker 03

  I didn't get to meet anybody, I saw you.

• 45:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, we-

• 45:13Speaker 03

  Had to talk to you.

• 45:14Stavros Halkias?

  We talked over some prosciutto.

• 45:16Speaker 03

  Talked to Tyler for a while, we had some prosciutto, like, uh, you know, and, and, uh, my wife secretly had the, everyone had the flu that night.

• 45:21Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, really?

• 45:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, my wife had the flu, she's like, "I don't feel so well," I was like-

• 45:25Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 45:25Speaker 03

  I said, "I can get sick, I got the championship," it was like Marty.

• 45:28Stavros Halkias?

  You got a lot of stuff, yeah, yeah.

• 45:29Speaker 03

  But, uh, no, no, no, then, yeah, but it was, it was, whatever. But anyway, uh, Mr. Wonderful, right?

• 45:36Stavros Halkias?

  Well, yeah.

• 45:36Speaker 03

  The casting.

• 45:37Stavros Halkias?

  The casting, and just, also like, talking about the Lenny's thing, it's just like, this movie did to me feel like a lot, like a culmination of almost every, all the prior work, cause it's like-

• 45:47Speaker 03

  You hope each one is that way, you know what I mean?

• 45:49Stavros Halkias?

  True, for sure, and definitely Gems felt that way too, but this felt like, cause the themes of like, the parent stuff is so obvious, and the fatherhood stuff, and the like-

• 45:59Speaker 03

  Well, there's no father in the movie.

• 46:00Stavros Halkias?

  No father, I mean, that's glaring.

• 46:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then is it him, and it's just like, I don't know, it was like a, a really, cause to me, it almost starts like a fish out of water comedy, it was so funny at first.

• 46:11Speaker 03

  No, I loved how people were laughing.

• 46:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 46:12Speaker 03

  You were at the New York one, right?

• 46:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, the lady, a lady told me to stop laughing, and I said-

• 46:16Speaker 03

  No, really?

• 46:17Stavros Halkias?

  I said, "I'm not the asshole lady, you're the," I was like, "Lady, we're in a movie." I got in a fight with a woman at the, and I'm like, "Fuck, I didn't know, you know, I didn't know anybody that-"

• 46:24Speaker 03

  That was my mom, no, I'm joking. Yeah, literally, I was like, "Watch this be his aunt."

• 46:29Speaker 03

  My aunt was there. I wonder if she.

• 46:31Stavros Halkias?

  Did she have a, did she have a young son who was also a prick?

• 46:36Speaker 03

  No, no, no.

• 46:37Stavros Halkias?

  I got in a fight with a family because I was enjoying myself at a fucking movie.

• 46:41Speaker 03

  No, no, no. My mom laughed a lot at the movie. My mom's seen it four times.

• 46:44Stavros Halkias?

  But it was like, it's hilarious. It's like fish out of water comedy. Then it's like, sort of like the, like a desperation thriller, you know, classic in the mid, like, what my, but my, people might say classic, sort of safty, you know, oeuvre, whatever. And then an incredible sports movie, too. Like, I wanted, I wanted an extra fucking half hour in Japan.

• 47:05Speaker 03

  Yeah. I, I love hearing that because every time it gets there, I mean, we, there was a, we shot a lot more table tennis. And then there was a lot more points. It was hard. And it was, because everyone's like, you gotta cut points. This is too many. We're not gonna be able to get them all done. And me and Diego, who I choreographed, choreographed, did all the choreography with, we went through all these points, thousands of hours of footage. And he's just an encyclopedia. He was like, Josh, this is a lot of points for these guys to learn.

• 47:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 47:31Speaker 03

  And even Timmy was like, I'm like, this is each, we're not gonna show 21 points in the game.

• 47:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 47:37Speaker 03

  But like, from my point of view.

• 47:38Stavros Halkias?

  I would have loved it all.

• 47:39Speaker 03

  Yeah. It's the perfect amount.

• 47:41Stavros Halkias?

  It is. No, no, it was, it was. Don't get me wrong. I, I want like.

• 47:44Speaker 03

  You want more until you get it. And then you're like, I don't want anymore.

• 47:46Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. I mean, that's the best movies, too, is like, you, it leaves you that sense of imagining the movie you didn't get.

• 47:53Speaker 03

  That's right, yeah.

• 47:53Stavros Halkias?

  Plus, the other thing that you guys, you guys do great is, every character could have their own movie.

• 47:58Speaker 03

  Sure. Every character is the star of a movie.

• 48:00Stavros Halkias?

  It's fucking, I mean, I mean, like, yeah, even, like, every, some more of the cat, like, yeah, Mr. Wonderful. I went in, I'm like, this movie looks incredible? Fuck Mr. Wonderful. And then you see the movie, you're like, duh, of cour-, they're using that to their advantage. They're using your feelings about everyone. If you're not a Mr. Wonderful fan, you'll like the movie. You'll like, and he's incredible in it. He's so fucking good.

• 48:22Speaker 03

  He was, uh, he was funny because sometimes he would be unbelievable. And only three or four takes. Other times we're doing a lot of takes.

• 48:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 48:30Speaker 03

  And Kevin is just, he's interesting. I mean, he's, uh, what I like about him is.

• 48:37Speaker 03

  He knew like, wow, I'm getting this experience. And when I pitched him, I was scared.

• 48:41Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 48:42Speaker 03

  You know, it was like, I was on Shark Tank.

• 48:45Speaker 03

  It felt like that.

• 48:45Stavros Halkias?

  What I have for you is you lose money to do my bullshit.

• 48:49Speaker 03

  And he did lose money. He would like fly himself and, but I'll tell you a little interesting snapshot of Kevin. We were in Japan and he was staying in, we were staying in the same hotel and he walked around with his camera. He's an artist, like he shreds the guitar.

• 49:04Stavros Halkias?

  No.

• 49:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, he edits all this own.

• 49:05Stavros Halkias?

  Wonderful fucking shreds.

• 49:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. He was on, he went on Adam's show and he's shredding in it. You gotta watch that.

• 49:10Stavros Halkias?

  I gotta watch that.

• 49:12Speaker 03

  And he, uh, he shreds on it. He's, he, uh, he edits his own material.

• 49:16Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 49:17Speaker 03

  He has camera setups. He understands. He buys cameras based off research. So he had a Leica camera. Like his, like him on CNN. You know what I mean? If you're like sending like.

• 49:27Stavros Halkias?

  He's his own DP when he does.

• 49:28Speaker 03

  He's his own producer, everything. Yeah.

• 49:30Stavros Halkias?

  That's fascinating.

• 49:31Speaker 03

  Yes. Like every time you see him on TV, he's most likely in his like living room with underwear underneath. You know, and he, uh, and so we're in Japan and he has this camera and he's walking around taking pictures and he's on set. And he's such a curious person. You don't get to where you are if you're not curious.

• 49:48Stavros Halkias?

  Mm-hmm.

• 49:48Speaker 03

  And he's this interesting person and he's taking pictures of everything. And then I go, we were like, oh, let's go up to like the hotel we had was like the, on the top floor. There was a bar and you're on top of Tokyo and stuff. And we walk out, elevator opens and I see at the bar, laptop, three external hard drives, a bottle of wine, two cameras plugged in, a notepad. And he's sitting there and it's his office. There's other people at the bar like mingling, having on dates and stuff like that. And he's just taking it over, editing photos.

• 50:19Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome.

• 50:20Speaker 03

  From earlier that day. And I, I saw that and I was just like, this guy is who he is. You know what I mean? And that was who I wanted to, I, to making the movie directing, it was all about just kind of getting him to that place.

• 50:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 50:30Speaker 03

  And then every once in a while, getting deep with like something, I mean, sharing something with him that he can relate to on a deep level. And then watching him express that, acting, whatever.

• 50:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 50:40Speaker 03

  Uh, and that at times and he, he does, he does bring it a handful of times.

• 50:44Stavros Halkias?

  He really does.

• 50:45Speaker 03

  And that's seeing them, seeing the spanking scene. When um, he's probably at his most cynical and sadistic and scary.

• 50:53Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 50:54Speaker 03

  And he's with that, you know.

• 50:55Stavros Halkias?

  Oh my god, the goon squad of pieces of shit. The guys who have ruined America.

• 51:00Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 51:00Stavros Halkias?

  The guys whose fucking, whose offspring are the reason our world is bad.

• 51:04Speaker 03

  The guys who started it all.

• 51:05Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 51:07Speaker 03

  The guys who started it all.

• 51:07Stavros Halkias?

  Absolutely.

• 51:08Speaker 03

  The guys who are laughing at this poor woman, this poor man's wife's bad review.

• 51:12Stavros Halkias?

  It's the fucking worst moment, and Elvis, let's go back, we're very spoiler, we don't want, we want people to see it. But that was so, just shows you how evil they are. Okay, look, it's one thing for them not to care about the underclass, right? Who cares about some fucking ping pong kid? It's their, it's his wife, and they're like, oh, it's the worst moment of my wife's life.

• 51:31Speaker 03

  No, they're laughing, they're making jokes about it, they're cracking jokes.

• 51:33Stavros Halkias?

  Cause to them, even their wives are just like, status symbols. I mean, to them, it's like a retired actress is like, oh, I'll trade her in or whatever. It's like, you know, all those pieces of shit in tuxedos.

• 51:42Speaker 03

  It's not a.

• 51:43Stavros Halkias?

  It shows that.

• 51:43Speaker 03

  And you know what's funny, while we were shooting that scene, one of the guys, who has a radio show, I don't remember the name of his radio show, but he's sitting there, taking pictures of Timmy during the scene. And Timmy goes, and someone comes up to me, and they're like, once, someone on this set's taking pictures and posting it, posting it.

• 51:59Stavros Halkias?

  Posting.

• 52:00Speaker 03

  Posting it live, posting.

• 52:01Stavros Halkias?

  Posting.

• 52:02Speaker 03

  And like, Timmy's like, someone's doing that, and then Timmy looks at me like, dude, why you, you're not in the, you're a scene in the, you're an actor in the movie? Like, what are you doing, man?

• 52:10Stavros Halkias?

  That's the flip side of your casting. A lot of guys are like, oh, I'm in a fucking movie, I'm gonna sell this dude, this is gonna be a good picture.

• 52:17Speaker 03

  And I looked at him, I went to him, and I'll be like, I'll, I'll be like, what the fuck's your problem, man? He's like, what? I was like, first and foremost, get in the scene. You know what I mean, like? And I'll say, and I'll say, give me your phone. He's like, yeah, I was like, give it to me right now. And now I got Mitchell's keys and wine. But uh, but he, but, and then I just confiscate the phone, but like, the thing is, is these guys, they bring, that guy brought so much. But there's a um, there's a moment in that where, where, uh, where, where, um, where Kevin, he says, a line that we, you know, I mean Ronnie, like, really proud of. He's like, you have no power here. And I kept telling him, I was like, that's gotta come from like. All of your resentments from everyone who's ever told you no and everybody you want to dominate.

• 52:58Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 52:58Speaker 03

  And he goes, you have no power here. And he accessed something in his throat.

• 53:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 53:03Speaker 03

  And then when we were in the mix, I told the mix, I told the sound designer, I was like, take that line and let's go six dB on the mids.

• 53:10Stavros Halkias?

  Drop that shit.

• 53:11Speaker 03

  Oh, I put the mids, bumped the mids. So when you watch, the next time you watch it, you'll feel it.

• 53:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's fucking Pycon.

• 53:17Speaker 03

  Liam Neeson almost.

• 53:18Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 53:19Speaker 03

  You have no power here.

• 53:21Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, he's sinister in that. And that's such an incredible scene of like.

• 53:24Speaker 03

  I let him spank the shit out of me first, though.

• 53:26Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, really? That's a good director, man.

• 53:28Speaker 03

  I was like, you gotta show me, it's gotta look hard.

• 53:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 53:31Speaker 03

  You know, and I was like, you could do it with the real paddle for me.

• 53:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, cuz you're in it as a director.

• 53:37Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I made Gwyneth spank me.

• 53:41Stavros Halkias?

  Rato spanked me.

• 53:42Speaker 03

  Rato is a good spank. Rato is a good spank.

• 53:45Stavros Halkias?

  Fuck, dude, there's so much to talk about. We gotta get to some calls, though.

• 53:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 53:48Stavros Halkias?

  But I have so many. One last thing about a casting thing is like, the kid who plays Dion is so good.

• 53:54Speaker 03

  Oh, man, Luke, man.

• 53:54Stavros Halkias?

  Luke is so good. Did you find him off?

• 53:57Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 53:57Stavros Halkias?

  The side talk video where he talks about not, never having seen his dad's dick?

• 54:02Speaker 03

  He goes like this, he goes, Trey Young looks like my dad's dick. And everyone's like this, and he goes, not that I know what my dad's dick looks like, but I know, but it was weird anyway.

• 54:11Stavros Halkias?

  He probably looks like that, yeah. Incredible.

• 54:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, I saw that and I was like, immediately, I was like, went into the comments, I was like, who the fuck is this guy? And I saw the handle, Fatrick Ewing. And I was like, I love this person. So I went in the next day to Ronnie, we were writing, and I was like.

• 54:26Stavros Halkias?

  He's perfect.

• 54:27Speaker 03

  I was like, I didn't want to cast him in anything just yet, uh, cuz there was a character whose name kept moving around. It ended up being Dion, which is a great name. But we, but, but we, we were thinking of, of, we were, we were just messing around. And I showed him the video and I was like, imagine being this guy's dad, right? But imagine he's like, super powerful. He's a powerful guy.

• 54:48Stavros Halkias?

  The video goes that much deeper.

• 54:50Speaker 03

  And I was like, cuz he says, cuz he's like, my dad's dick, so.

• 54:53Stavros Halkias?

  And he's scared of his dad, he's scared of how he's being perceived. There's so much in that moment.

• 54:58Speaker 03

  And that dad hates sports, too. So imagine that. So now he's seeing his son in a viral video, talking about his dick. In a thing that he doesn't even like, doesn't even support, right? And he's clearly wasted, right? So there's so much disapproval. And then imagine being this guy, knowing that his dad watched the video the next day. And that whole thing, I was like, alright, this is the character.

• 55:19Stavros Halkias?

  Now it's ping pong in the 50s, it's not even basketball. That's so good, dude. That's, oh yeah, I love that he was.

• 55:25Speaker 03

  He's great and he's, he's amazing. I'm trying to like, he should be doing a lot more. He was amazing. You see him on Barstool?

• 55:31Stavros Halkias?

  I haven't seen him on it.

• 55:31Speaker 03

  He's so good, man.

• 55:32Stavros Halkias?

  No, I loved him. He was really good.

• 55:34Speaker 03

  And on Subway Takes, he's really good, too.

• 55:35Stavros Halkias?

  He's really good. Yeah, yeah.

• 55:37Speaker 03

  Takes some calls?

• 55:38Stavros Halkias?

  Takes some damn calls. And go see the movie, by the way, folks. It's so fucking good.

• 55:44Speaker 03

  So now this part's live?

• 55:45Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, no, this is, they're pre-recorded, don't worry.

• 55:47Speaker 03

  Oh, the calls are pre-recorded? Oh, I didn't know that. Alright.

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• 56:52Speaker 08

  Hey, Davi, all this esteemed guests.

• 56:56Speaker 08

  Uh, long time, first time. And it's funny because I never thought I'd actually be calling in with any problems. Well, here you are, brother. But I found out tonight. My girlfriend has been keeping from me that she is bipolar. Hmm. Um, and it's really thrown me off. We've been dating for. Why? Well, like seven months.

• 57:24Speaker 08

  And. It does seem like something. Friend kind of got mad about me mentioning something about bipolar people and I thought it was. What were you saying about bipolar people?

• 57:33Stavros Halkias?

  He's trashing the mentally ill.

• 57:39Speaker 08

  Kind of was like, yeah, it's none of your business and I don't know. Didn't really come out and tell me. Um, but that's just what I'm getting is that she's bipolar and, uh. Has she said that?

• 57:52Stavros Halkias?

  Was she just mad that you trashed bipolar people?

• 57:57Speaker 08

  Is that it?

• 57:57Speaker 03

  Well, first of all, shout out bipolar people.

• 57:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that is true. You get some great stuff.

• 58:01Speaker 03

  Dude, man. Yeah.

• 58:03Stavros Halkias?

  The mentally ill in general, great artists, unfortunately.

• 58:06Speaker 03

  Unfortunately, yeah.

• 58:07Stavros Halkias?

  It does work. And get it under control, by the way. We're not saying go undiagnosed. We're not, we're not saying get off your meds. Don't go Kanye mode.

• 58:13Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 58:14Stavros Halkias?

  But remember Kanye Honest Meds? How good that was? That's what we want. Um, but, but yeah.

• 58:19Speaker 03

  For a while I was like, I don't, I, for meds, uh, for a while I was like, oh, you should need to be who you are. And then I embraced it. I was like, you know, you need the meds.

• 58:26Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 58:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:27Stavros Halkias?

  And everybody goes through that, right? Everyone wants to convince themselves.

• 58:30Speaker 03

  But, but what, what's, what's your deal, bro?

• 58:32Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know.

• 58:33Speaker 03

  Why, why are you hating on your girl? I see, I think he's just upset. I think you're upset that your girlfriend hid this from you, but first of all, does it say? Did he, did you, how long have you guys been together?

• 58:42Stavros Halkias?

  He said seven months, right?

• 58:43Speaker 03

  Seven months? That's not long enough to be like, you don't meet somebody like, just so you know I'm bipolar. Don't take that, don't take that personally.

• 58:49Stavros Halkias?

  I could see that being.

• 58:50Speaker 03

  It's a stigma sometimes. It's still got a stigma on it in this world.

• 58:53Stavros Halkias?

  When you started dating, I could see like.

• 58:56Speaker 03

  Sounds like an STD.

• 58:57Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. It doesn't really affect you. And it's like, does she have it under control? Does she need to talk, does she need to talk to you about it? Have we also?

• 59:04Speaker 03

  Also, seven months is the time to tell. Tell them.

• 59:06Stavros Halkias?

  We're right around that zone. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say is like, I would say six months is a good marker and then it's like, alright, she's a little late on it potentially. But also.

• 59:14Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 59:14Stavros Halkias?

  Also, this guy, the vibe I'm also getting is like, he just didn't like being scolded by her friend.

• 59:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 59:21Stavros Halkias?

  So now he's like, you, her friend embarrassed me.

• 59:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:24Stavros Halkias?

  So now I'm gonna pretend I'm fucking mad you hid being bipolar from.

• 59:27Speaker 03

  That's right, he had a chip.

• 59:28Stavros Halkias?

  He definitely, that's, that's kinda, cuz, cuz, and also it's like, what were you saying about bipolar people?

• 59:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, I know, exactly.

• 59:35Stavros Halkias?

  It's really funny that your girlfriend has a secret medical condition. And you're like, fucking pieces of shit, I wouldn't be found dead with anybody like that. And it's like, yeah, they'd be mad, dude. Maybe that's why.

• 59:46Speaker 03

  She sensed that you were an insensitive person.

• 59:50Stavros Halkias?

  Come on, honey, we're gonna go egg the fucking mental ward. What do you say? We're gonna go pretend we're paralysis, sleep paralysis demons. Let's paint our faces and go to the fucking mental health clinic. So yeah, dude, I don't know. We don't have enough information, really. But also, how about just handle like an adult? Talk to her about it. See why she didn't tell you.

• 1:00:11Speaker 03

  That's right, that's.

• 1:00:12Stavros Halkias?

  And also maybe be the kinda person that's, people wanna tell you stuff.

• 1:00:16Speaker 03

  And let her know that it's not, it shouldn't be a stigma, that it's totally normal and lots of people have different mental illnesses and she should just own it and be a little bit more proud and that way, not proud.

• 1:00:28Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean though. Like, yeah, as long as she's got her shit under control.

• 1:00:32Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 1:00:32Stavros Halkias?

  You can say, hey, now I get maybe if you're the kinda person who thinks you are a supportive partner, that wants to be there for your partner, and they were hiding something that's hard for them to deal with.

• 1:00:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:00:42Stavros Halkias?

  You could say, hey, I want you, I want to be, to help you with stuff, I'm here for you, we should be a support system. I don't want you to feel like you have to hide something because maybe people, other people in your life looked at this as a stigma. I don't see it as a stigma, I want you to be open with me about stuff that's hard.

• 1:00:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:00:59Stavros Halkias?

  Don't feel like I'm the kinda person you need to hide stuff from.

• 1:01:01Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 1:01:02Stavros Halkias?

  That's a good, you have an opportunity to have that conversation.

• 1:01:04Speaker 03

  That's a deep conversation, you get.

• 1:01:05Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 1:01:06Speaker 03

  You can get close really quickly.

• 1:01:08Stavros Halkias?

  And, and I do think like, this, they're like different.

• 1:01:11Speaker 03

  Use it as an opportunity.

• 1:01:12Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly.

• 1:01:12Speaker 03

  To take the relationship to the next level.

• 1:01:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's, it's definitely one of those moments where it's like, are we getting closer or is this not gonna work?

• 1:01:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, it sounds like my question, he's like.

• 1:01:20Stavros Halkias?

  His whole vibe, it doesn't seem good.

• 1:01:22Speaker 03

  He's like, I'm out.

• 1:01:23Stavros Halkias?

  He's fucking, woo, woo, woo. He's like, so what, I gotta buy a fucking straitjacket now in case she freaks out?

• 1:01:30Speaker 03

  You gotta.

• 1:01:32Stavros Halkias?

  I can't afford to pat on my walls.

• 1:01:36Stavros Halkias?

  Anyway, think about it, bro. Think about how you want to behave, bro. What else you got, little Eldis?

• 1:01:42Speaker 09

  Hello, Stav, Eldis, and esteemed guest.

• 1:01:47Speaker 09

  I'm calling because I have a, you know, I'm looking for some advice on, on a bit of a situation. It's not near as dramatic as some of your other ones, so I'll get right into it. I've been with my partner for 16 years. She's an awesome woman, best friend. You know, I, we hang out all the time, love spending time with her. An issue kind of cropped up about four or five years ago. Again, we've been together 16 years now.

• 1:02:14Stavros Halkias?

  Wait, which?

• 1:02:14Speaker 09

  And four or five years ago, we got accidentally pregnant.

• 1:02:17Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, okay.

• 1:02:18Speaker 09

  Now, originally, we both really didn't want kids. And after that pregnancy, which we did abort, my thoughts around it have changed. And so now, in the last four years, we've had conversations about like, hey, do we want kids? And I have changed over. I'm on the side of like, I think I would like some rugrats running around.

• 1:02:46Stavros Halkias?

  Damn.

• 1:02:47Speaker 09

  But she has.

• 1:02:50Stavros Halkias?

  He, he doesn't, but he says 16 years. He sounds youthful. It's gotta be. Mid 30s, probably. Yeah, mid started in their 20s. Yeah, or even like, earliest we're talking, maybe they were like, high school, you know? Sometimes it takes things like that to know what you want. True, that is true.

• 1:03:05Speaker 03

  He's got a little more here, yeah.

• 1:03:07Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, a little more.

• 1:03:08Speaker 09

  At least they had on the, I don't want kids.

• 1:03:10Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wait, wait, wait.

• 1:03:11Speaker 09

  And so now, a way I've been kind of.

• 1:03:13Stavros Halkias?

  He wants the kids, she doesn't want the kids? Oh.

• 1:03:15Speaker 09

  Dealing with it is, I'd rather have her than some unknown child, you know, some, some.

• 1:03:23Stavros Halkias?

  Duh, of course.

• 1:03:25Speaker 09

  Kid who I don't know their personality, I don't know who they are. I'd rather have her in my life. However, I can't shake these feelings of, we're making a little bit of a mistake. When now we're entering our mid to late 30s.

• 1:03:37Stavros Halkias?

  There we go.

• 1:03:37Speaker 09

  So time is kind of running out if we do decide to.

• 1:03:42Stavros Halkias?

  There's no decide. She's decide. Like, you change your mind.

• 1:03:46Speaker 09

  It doesn't. How do I get over the, the sense that part of me feels like that's a bit of a mistake not having children?

• 1:03:53Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 1:03:54Speaker 09

  And the other part of me is very firm on, well, I want her in my life at all.

• 1:04:00Stavros Halkias?

  Well, it's really funny that he's like, not a big deal like some of your other calls. It's just like, an existential crisis that might ruin your relationship.

• 1:04:12Speaker 03

  I mean, my, my, my thought is like, does she, does she want to have kids at all? That's the question.

• 1:04:18Stavros Halkias?

  To me, yeah.

• 1:04:19Speaker 03

  If she doesn't want to have kids at all, then yeah, and you want kids, that's a huge, that's a, that's a decision you gotta make. I mean, is the, is the relationship, you know, but are you getting everything you want from life out of the relationship? Then you don't, maybe you don't need kids, but.

• 1:04:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. I mean, look, the, the way I read this situation is like, he's got really no case whatsoever. It's like, you've talked about it, you, you've been together forever. Going into being together, you're like, we never want kids. You had an accidental pregnancy, you decided you don't want, I mean, there were, if there was ever a moment to be, we've been together for a decade plus.

• 1:04:55Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 1:04:55Stavros Halkias?

  We got pregnant. Now we're really gonna think about, you, you were, you did think about it. She did have a moment to really search her feelings. And you can't get any more clear than how she feels. And so I think what you can do is talk to her about it. And be like, this is how I feel. But if she's like, no, I mean, that's.

• 1:05:16Speaker 03

  Well, you, we have to assume that he has talked to her about it.

• 1:05:20Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know. You were talking about my callers, they're all cowards. You know, they'd rather talk to me before their wife.

• 1:05:31Speaker 03

  I mean, this is a crossroads in his life.

• 1:05:32Stavros Halkias?

  It is. I mean, but you, I think he also has to be.

• 1:05:34Speaker 03

  Crossroads happen. It's real.

• 1:05:36Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. And he has to be honest with himself because he says he doesn't, he says if, if, to us, he says, if I had the choice, I definitely want my partner. But is that, you have to decide, is that true? Because that's basically the, that's basically what you're talking about now.

• 1:05:55Stavros Halkias?

  She does not, to me, it seems clear she doesn't want kids and it would be a huge.

• 1:06:00Speaker 03

  Is it, but is it, maybe she just doesn't want them right now.

• 1:06:03Stavros Halkias?

  I guess, but I don't know. Yeah, look, you gotta have, it really boils down to you gotta have the conversation. You have to recog- you have to be honest with yourself. Is it actually what you want?

• 1:06:15Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, I get that too. People, it's okay to change your mind, and also, people have been together since they were that young.

• 1:06:19Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 1:06:20Stavros Halkias?

  That happens a lot. People grow apart, or-

• 1:06:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, this sounds like a high school sweetheart situation.

• 1:06:24Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, if you talk about mid and they're talking sixteen, that they were seventeen, eighteen.

• 1:06:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:06:30Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe twenty at the latest, so, um, you know, I don't know, dude. I would say, it's, you just gotta have the conversation, but it's not looking good for kids, if I had to pick. If I, she does not seem like she wants kids, and I kinda get, I mean dude, I spent one weekend with my nephew, who loved this, by the way. I bought him expensive toys and he was playing with this popcorn thing. He was just banging it on the floor.

• 1:06:53Speaker 03

  It's always, it's always the package you want.

• 1:06:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Some little French imported car from Soho.

• 1:07:00Speaker 03

  I mean, look, I love my kids.

• 1:07:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:02Speaker 03

  I love my kids. I mean, three and a half and six months.

• 1:07:05Stavros Halkias?

  Did you always wanna have kids, or did it just kinda happen?

• 1:07:07Speaker 03

  Ever since I was a kid, I wanted a kid.

• 1:07:08Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, really?

• 1:07:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:07:09Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 1:07:10Speaker 03

  Just wanted a little buddy.

• 1:07:11Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting.

• 1:07:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:07:12Stavros Halkias?

  Damn. But you knew, right? So this guy's like, but also, I feel like changes happen, right? Where it's like, like, I kinda, I've always been like, I don't really know. I guess on some level, you want kids, cause you feel like you should.

• 1:07:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:07:24Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, and then I-

• 1:07:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's a big thing, you feel like you should.

• 1:07:26Stavros Halkias?

  And I spent the weekend with my nephew and I'm like-

• 1:07:28Speaker 03

  Yeah. It definitely changes your life. It changes your life, it's a lot, you know what I mean? It's a life changer.

• 1:07:36Stavros Halkias?

  If they-

• 1:07:36Speaker 03

  For, you know, for good, but your life changes.

• 1:07:38Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 1:07:39Speaker 03

  If you're not into change, then don't do that.

• 1:07:41Stavros Halkias?

  Totally, and I get it. But it is crazy, it's like, your whole life depends on like, a little, some little fat piece of shit's nap schedule. Like, if some little lump gets twenty minutes less sleep, one random afternoon, two months of your life are ruined. It's crazy.

• 1:07:58Speaker 03

  It's simpler than that. It's like, the crazy thing about having kids is that you're just, time just totally changes.

• 1:08:04Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:08:04Speaker 03

  You're like, first of all, you're seeing it change. It's manifested physically in front of you. And also just like, a day can feel like forever, and a year feels like that.

• 1:08:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:15Speaker 03

  Time is the enemy.

• 1:08:16Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:16Speaker 03

  I don't like time.

• 1:08:17Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:18Speaker 03

  Not in this house.

• 1:08:19Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, I agree.

• 1:08:20Speaker 03

  It's not the house of time.

• 1:08:21Stavros Halkias?

  I like more, more time would be nice.

• 1:08:23Speaker 03

  That's what Kevin always says. He goes, "I don't need more money, I need more time."

• 1:08:27Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 1:08:27Speaker 03

  I was like, "Oh wow, that's pretty deep."

• 1:08:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. There's no way to get that.

• 1:08:30Speaker 03

  For him to hear someone who's like, super rich, yeah, he's like, "But you could tell he's thinking about it."

• 1:08:35Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:08:35Speaker 03

  "How can I buy that?"

• 1:08:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:37Speaker 03

  That'll happen, though.

• 1:08:37Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 1:08:38Speaker 03

  Within the next hundred years, there'll be like, not immortality, but like, life extension by like, fifty, sixty years.

• 1:08:43Stavros Halkias?

  They are gonna be stra-

• 1:08:44Speaker 03

  Maybe more. That's scary, though. You don't want like, two hundred year old people walking around.

• 1:08:48Stavros Halkias?

  No. First of all, they'll figure out how to put their brains in a poor person's young body. That's what they'll do. I mean, Kevin O'Leary will be in some jacked, broke twenty year old's body in fifteen years, I promise you that. The second they have that technology, they're gonna do it. They're not extending their shitty bodies.

• 1:09:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, but the second- Yeah, but isn't the body a part of the brain?

• 1:09:10Stavros Halkias?

  We're, they're gonna find out.

• 1:09:12Speaker 03

  There was, someone said, it's like, would you rather, if you could, if you cut off your arm, you say, it's, "I'm with my arm." If you cut off your legs, you're saying, "I am with my legs." If you cut off your head, are you, what are you saying?

• 1:09:25Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. Like, and you're holding it?

• 1:09:28Speaker 03

  Are you, though?

• 1:09:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:30Speaker 03

  "I am with my head."

• 1:09:31Stavros Halkias?

  I feel like the he- I feel like-

• 1:09:32Speaker 03

  I think I'm just saying, "I'm with my head." Cause the, this is the eye but the heart.

• 1:09:37Stavros Halkias?

  I feel like the brain, I feel like, it's just, to me, it's all brain.

• 1:09:40Speaker 03

  So then you're just, "I. I am."

• 1:09:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I think so. I think there's definitely-

• 1:09:44Speaker 03

  So you're, so you're saying, I see you're saying-

• 1:09:46Stavros Halkias?

  Philosophically, I think there is a, the closest thing to a soul is really our brain, our central nervous system.

• 1:09:52Speaker 03

  The consciousness, consciousness.

• 1:09:54Stavros Halkias?

  And what we use to have consciousness is brain and central nervous system. So I think, you put that brain into a different body, or a robot, or whatever the fuck bullshit they're gonna come up with.

• 1:10:03Speaker 03

  So, oh, so here's a question.

• 1:10:05Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:05Speaker 03

  Uh, alright, so, and we'll get back to the calls.

• 1:10:08Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 1:10:09Speaker 03

  That, I like this topic, I like this topic. So, if, alright, so you, you die, right? The heart stops moving. The blood is still pumping. You're conscious. You're still conscious.

• 1:10:21Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, you're alive.

• 1:10:21Speaker 03

  And are you aware that you're dying?

• 1:10:24Stavros Halkias?

  I don't think you're dead until, I don't think you're dead until the brain does, until consciousness goes off.

• 1:10:28Speaker 03

  Now, is it possible that it never turns off?

• 1:10:32Stavros Halkias?

  It is, yeah. I guess so. We don't know, right?

• 1:10:34Speaker 03

  Because, okay, so I, once, I, no one knows what consciousness is.

• 1:10:38Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 1:10:39Speaker 03

  My theory, consciousness is a three, a holographic image.

• 1:10:45Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 1:10:45Speaker 03

  Holographic image.

• 1:10:46Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 1:10:47Speaker 03

  That is, all of our senses are coming in, touch, hearing, sight, sound, uh, smell. And it's, all of it's coming in from all these different perspectives and it's creating this holographic image. And inside that holographic image is consciousness.

• 1:11:02Stavros Halkias?

  You think it's a physical thing you can touch?

• 1:11:05Speaker 03

  I think it's, maybe, I think everything is physical you can touch on some level.

• 1:11:09Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, sure, sure. Like atoms and shit like that?

• 1:11:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, something, has to be. Or it's not, or it's the only thing in life that exists outside of that, which would be fucking crazy.

• 1:11:19Stavros Halkias?

  I kinda think that.

• 1:11:20Speaker 03

  Or is it an illusion? Or is it just some sort of, uh, like, magic trick that like, it is all these senses together and you're feeling them and you don't know what to do? But I do think it's a holograph. So it's like you can't grab it, you know what I mean?

• 1:11:31Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, I see what you mean by that. I think, I, and maybe it's just because I'm dumb and don't want to think about it.

• 1:11:36Speaker 03

  I'm dumb too, so.

• 1:11:37Stavros Halkias?

  No, totally.

• 1:11:37Speaker 03

  We're two dumb guys talking about this.

• 1:11:39Stavros Halkias?

  Of course. This is, now this is podcasting.

• 1:11:40Speaker 03

  Yes, okay.

• 1:11:41Stavros Halkias?

  Remember when I said I respect table tennis more? Two morons being like, "What is consciousness?" I think it's actually magic, which is what I was basically about to say.

• 1:11:52Stavros Halkias?

  Which is like, where I'm like, I think.

• 1:11:54Speaker 03

  It is magic.

• 1:11:55Stavros Halkias?

  I think like, I think we have it in a way that's like, I think it's just like an unexplainable, uh, like, pers- way to perceive things that we have on a higher level than like a plant. Like, I don't believe like a plant.

• 1:12:09Speaker 03

  Has consciousness. No, they're not sentient beings.

• 1:12:11Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no. Or some people are like, oh, everyone, I do, this is when, this is when my thinking gets quasi-mist or quasi-relig- if you want to say religious, quasi-whatever, where I'm like, I think after, but at the same time, it is rooted in just like, I think, brain power.

• 1:12:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:12:26Stavros Halkias?

  Where it's like, I do think it's just a physical, we have the, the stuff, the kind of brains to be able to think in a more complex way. And it's as simple as that. And I would be really fascinated if it goes on forever, just changed in a different way. I don't really necessarily think that.

• 1:12:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, because the gasoline runs out.

• 1:12:44Stavros Halkias?

  I think so.

• 1:12:44Speaker 03

  Once the motor turns off. But I do think that we are probably alive consciously.

• 1:12:49Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:49Speaker 03

  For a couple of minutes after we're dead.

• 1:12:51Stavros Halkias?

  Probably.

• 1:12:52Speaker 03

  Which is probably the longest time ever.

• 1:12:54Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 1:12:55Speaker 03

  So then you're living forever.

• 1:12:56Stavros Halkias?

  That's what they say DMT feels like.

• 1:12:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm not doing that, though.

• 1:12:58Stavros Halkias?

  I'm, I'm thinking about it.

• 1:12:59Speaker 03

  I have a friend who's done that. She's, she's one of the producers in the movie, the Japanese, she's into exploring how far you can go.

• 1:13:07Stavros Halkias?

  I'm kinda interested in that.

• 1:13:08Speaker 03

  Nah, I can't do anything.

• 1:13:09Stavros Halkias?

  I gotta get more mentally strong.

• 1:13:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:13:12Stavros Halkias?

  But I wanna get back, cuz I've had some tough mushrooms.

• 1:13:14Speaker 03

  That was worse. I don't need to do that ever again.

• 1:13:16Stavros Halkias?

  I've had some good ones, I've had some real bad ones on mushrooms.

• 1:13:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, I, all I need is one quarter, one second of a bad one for me not to do anything.

• 1:13:23Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:23Speaker 03

  But, but I do, but I do think that like if time disappears and you're dead and you're like, holy shit, I'm dead right now.

• 1:13:32Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, consciousness outside of time is interesting.

• 1:13:34Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 1:13:34Stavros Halkias?

  Now we're talking about physics and shit like that, which you're gonna, I don't understand.

• 1:13:37Speaker 03

  Way too far away from my.

• 1:13:38Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, but that's cool to think about.

• 1:13:40Speaker 03

  But it's, look, what's nice about being dumb.

• 1:13:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yep.

• 1:13:42Speaker 03

  Is we don't know a lot.

• 1:13:43Stavros Halkias?

  Lot of good stuff.

• 1:13:44Speaker 03

  And if you don't know a lot, you can question everything.

• 1:13:46Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 1:13:47Speaker 03

  You know what I mean?

• 1:13:47Stavros Halkias?

  You can question, you can imagine how cool versions of things.

• 1:13:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:13:51Stavros Halkias?

  When the reality is so much sadder.

• 1:13:53Speaker 03

  My, my mother-in-law, she's a genius, right?

• 1:13:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. Oh, tough life to be that smart.

• 1:13:57Speaker 03

  And then she, she's, and she's like studies consciousness.

• 1:14:00Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:14:01Speaker 03

  And like a dedicated a life to try and understand what it is. I'm gonna send her, if this makes.

• 1:14:05Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, we'll send her the clip.

• 1:14:06Speaker 03

  And she's gonna be like, you, she's gonna be like, get a divorce now, now.

• 1:14:11Stavros Halkias?

  She's like, we, she's like, okay, before you do anything, make sure the kids are away from him. Send the kids here first.

• 1:14:17Speaker 03

  Unfortunately, the DNA is already passed through.

• 1:14:19Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, true, true. It's already.

• 1:14:21Speaker 03

  All right, next caller.

• 1:14:22Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, hit us with the next one, LD.

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• 1:15:15Speaker 11

  How you doing, Stav? How you doing, Eldis? Long story short, my girlfriend wants to get a breast reduction.

• 1:15:20Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wait, what happened? Sorry, wants to get a breast reduction? Okay.

• 1:15:31Stavros Halkias?

  All right, let him finish.

• 1:15:33Speaker 11

  Constipation, whatever with doctors and they said she has to get below a certain weight.

• 1:15:38Stavros Halkias?

  By the way, pause this.

• 1:15:39Speaker 11

  You know, we

• 1:15:40Stavros Halkias?

  The difference in like a guy who's like, he doesn't want to have kids? Or he's like trying to wrestle with whether he wants kids or not and will it affect his relationship? He sounds happier than this guy who's only problem is that his girlfriend wants to Like this guy sounds like he just got the worst news of all time and the other guy's still He's a little chipper even though he's facing a much bigger problem. Go ahead, Eldis.

• 1:16:06Speaker 11

  Constipation, whatever with doctors and they said she has to get below a certain weight.

• 1:16:13Stavros Halkias?

  It's a medical thing.

• 1:16:14Speaker 11

  As before we met, we treat a lot more, you know, we've kind of been working out more, trying to be healthy. We both trying to lose that relationship weight. And she's getting towards now that weight, you know, where she can get her breast reduction or whatever, insurance will cover it.

• 1:16:31Speaker 11

  Not really asking for advice. I know that probably the long term, that'd be good for her, but is there any way I can maybe sabotage her? Maybe a way to make sure she doesn't get to that?

• 1:16:44Stavros Halkias?

  He's calling the insurance company. He's like, she's on drugs. It's, you don't want her to have this. It's gonna go bad. You guys are gonna be on the hook for this.

• 1:16:54Speaker 11

  I think it's, you know, a little bit ridiculous, but she probably took it to breast reduction at whatever weight, but however insurance works, you know, I'll work with them.

• 1:17:02Stavros Halkias?

  I'll work with them.

• 1:17:04Speaker 11

  I really can do to slowly make her put on weight without her noticing, you know, I'm using the one who likes to put in the house.

• 1:17:12Stavros Halkias?

  This guy's really funny.

• 1:17:14Speaker 11

  I try to eat, you know, healthy and try to cook for both of us, but, um.

• 1:17:18Stavros Halkias?

  Sneaking in.

• 1:17:19Speaker 11

  I know eventually she'll just get her breast reduction, but it'll be to prolong it a little bit if there's anything I can do.

• 1:17:26Stavros Halkias?

  This is funny because he has chose, like, he's like, I would rather have my girlfriend weigh more, but have big tits. Like, he has a funny, there's a funny type of body positivity here.

• 1:17:38Speaker 03

  Yes, for sure.

• 1:17:39Stavros Halkias?

  Where he's like, can I get, keep my girlfriend chubbier?

• 1:17:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, so that I can have, yeah.

• 1:17:43Stavros Halkias?

  Stay huge. And he's made his choice. He's decided what's important to him.

• 1:17:49Speaker 03

  I, I mean.

• 1:17:50Stavros Halkias?

  Unfortunately, man, you're just gonna have to go with her desires about her own body. I hate to break it to you. Stop with the booze.

• 1:18:01Stavros Halkias?

  Unfortunately, she's a human being with autonomy.

• 1:18:06Stavros Halkias?

  Short of, yes, sabotaging her, sneaking like sugar into her food or whatever.

• 1:18:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:18:11Stavros Halkias?

  Being like, I baked a low-cal cheesecake, but it's full of butter and fucking honey.

• 1:18:17Speaker 03

  If he did that, well, she would make, become more eligible for the.

• 1:18:19Stavros Halkias?

  No, you got, apparently you gotta lose weight to, you have to be under a threshold.

• 1:18:23Speaker 03

  To get the reduction?

• 1:18:24Stavros Halkias?

  To get the reduction. I guess because it's like a medical.

• 1:18:27Speaker 03

  But I thought that you would, I thought that there was a, but I thought medically, I don't know how this shit works.

• 1:18:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, again, back to the consciousness, we have no idea what we're talking about. I think it's kinda like, have you ever seen like my 600-pound life where there's, sometimes they're too fat for the surgery?

• 1:18:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, for sure.

• 1:18:40Stavros Halkias?

  I think what they're saying is like, you have to lose weight to sort of be a, a, a better candidate for surgery in general. Uh, but yeah, no, man, support your girlfriend's goals.

• 1:18:51Speaker 03

  You start, exactly, you start pushing up back against that. You might, you may, you potentially could win in the four, in the near time, you'll lose, man.

• 1:19:01Speaker 03

  That's a, you'll lose, you gotta, the, people need to be happy.

• 1:19:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, man. Sorry, pal.

• 1:19:10Stavros Halkias?

  How dejected his voice was, it's so funny. Cause he's kinda doing a bit, but in the, in really, he's not. What else we got, LD?

• 1:19:20Speaker 12

  Hey, Stavi. Um, so I'm gonna get right to it. Uh, I'm a dog walker and I keep running into this issue where I've got a door guy that keeps harassing me. Um, the first thing he said was like, I just made an off comment saying like, my feet hurt. It was my last walk. And he was just like, oh, I really wish I could massage them.

• 1:19:39Stavros Halkias?

  Ooh, immediately?

• 1:19:41Speaker 12

  And then he-

• 1:19:42Stavros Halkias?

  Straight to massage to a stranger? That's fucking insane.

• 1:19:50Speaker 04

  That's crazy when you're a doorman, cause you're just the same spot every single day.

• 1:19:54Stavros Halkias?

  And you're like in a, in a little suit?

• 1:19:56Speaker 03

  And he's seeing this person multiple times a day, maybe.

• 1:19:59Stavros Halkias?

  Damn.

• 1:20:01Speaker 12

  And then he like asked me about like my Halloween costume, uh, on another day. And he asked me if it was like sexy and if I could see pictures.

• 1:20:11Stavros Halkias?

  Ask for pictures?

• 1:20:12Speaker 12

  And today he like physically like grazed my arm.

• 1:20:15Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, no.

• 1:20:16Speaker 12

  And I've like let my boss know.

• 1:20:17Speaker 04

  This is over. Report this guy.

• 1:20:19Speaker 12

  Tried to talk to the residents, but it doesn't really seem like there's really much he can do. Um, I'm getting to the point where I'm about to get like really confrontational and just be like, don't fucking touch me.

• 1:20:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:20:31Speaker 12

  But, uh, I'm also gonna have to deal with him on a daily basis. So I'm just kind of a pussy and non-confrontational.

• 1:20:39Stavros Halkias?

  Well, you shouldn't be assaulted.

• 1:20:41Speaker 12

  I was wondering what you think I should do. That's basically it. Peace.

• 1:20:45Speaker 03

  Someone's touching you, you should defend yourself.

• 1:20:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. I mean, this is, this, I get what she means though, because yes, of course, uh, this person deserves to, you know, you can get in his face, report him, whatever. But also she's talking about the reality of the situation, which is like, who knows how long that's gonna take. These residents aren't really supportive.

• 1:21:03Speaker 03

  Scary, yeah.

• 1:21:04Stavros Halkias?

  They could, this guy, who, this guy's the kinda guy who asks to massage your feet. What, you, you, like, he's clearly a fucking loose cannon in some ways. So I guess the number one thought is like-

• 1:21:14Speaker 03

  Do you need that job?

• 1:21:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. You're a dog walker, you know, uh, one nice part of that job is flexibility, right? Like you're not, you're not like, you know, obviously doorman building, you get, if you have a lot of clients in one place, that's nice, but like how-

• 1:21:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's right. That could be a problem.

• 1:21:31Stavros Halkias?

  But also I think- She said she talked to the residents or what, Eldis?

• 1:21:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, she said.

• 1:21:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, she tried talking to them, but they basically said like, there's nothing they can do really.

• 1:21:39Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, so they're pieces of shit.

• 1:21:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course there's something they could do. They could go to the person and be like, hey, respect this person.

• 1:21:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:46Speaker 03

  Don't be a scumbag.

• 1:21:47Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. If someone, Eldis, if you're like, every time I come in, your doorman grabs my nuts. I would say something to the doorman. I would be like, bro, what, what's going on here? You know what I mean? Like if my guests are being harassed by my doorman. So first of all, that actually maybe puts us in the direction of, do you need this job? Cause these people are pieces of shit. If the residents won't say anything, that's bizarre. Because they, they should be horrified by this behavior.

• 1:22:16Speaker 03

  A hundred percent.

• 1:22:17Stavros Halkias?

  It's crazy.

• 1:22:18Speaker 03

  Are they saying, I guess we can't talk back to this person? It's like if that, I want to know the logic behind that.

• 1:22:23Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. And I, and like she's saying like, okay, I get if you're not a confrontational person. Because yes, I think before you just abandon making this money or whatever, you could just be like, you, you maybe should get confrontational, be like, don't fucking touch me. You know, you could also have fucking pepper spray, whatever the fuck of this guy like.

• 1:22:43Speaker 03

  She could bring a friend.

• 1:22:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. But it's just so annoying. Cause it's like, it's making her job. It's just her job and now this guy.

• 1:22:50Speaker 03

  She could bring a, she could bring a conference, she could bring a confrontational friend, could be a partner or whatever.

• 1:22:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:22:55Speaker 03

  And who can step to him.

• 1:22:57Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. And it sucks, by the way, that you have to do this.

• 1:22:59Speaker 03

  I heard you touched her.

• 1:23:01Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:23:01Speaker 03

  Do it again, you're gonna have a problem.

• 1:23:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that'd be cool.

• 1:23:03Speaker 03

  You know?

• 1:23:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, fuck, fuck this guy up. You have, you gotta, wait for him. How about turn the tables on him? Follow him home. Get a baton. Hit him in the kneecaps.

• 1:23:17Stavros Halkias?

  That's not real advice. Don't do any crimes. Uh, don't do any crimes. Stobby's World does not tell you to do crimes. But look, this sucks because. The residents should have handled this, right? That's, that's number one. That's completely on them. Think of it in any other way. If you're doing a, if you're walking their dog and there's other like, you know, you got fucking electrocuted, you know, they have loose wires in their apartment, you got electrocuted. That's on them. Like, these are hazards that they're putting you through as essentially your employers. So, you, if they're not dealing with it, uh, you might need to drop them. I know, that's easier said than done if they're like good clients. But, other than that, I think you can get some, you can get confrontational.

• 1:24:02Stavros Halkias?

  You, that's a, you can try that before you just abandon the whole thing. But unfortunately, no one here has your back. That sucks dick because, and then, other than that, you can, yeah, bring someone to intimidate. Or even like, if you have to, you know, they don't want to say anything. Is there a management company of this building that you can say, hey, I'm a dog walker here. This guy, you know? And you can even say to the guy, I don't, please stop making these comments to me. Don't touch me ever again. This is completely inappropriate. If you do it again, I'm gonna report you and if you do it after that, I'm gonna go to the police. And that, it might, he might just need that. Again, you shouldn't have to do that.

• 1:24:38Speaker 03

  That's tough for her if she feels unsafe and confrontational, but, you're right.

• 1:24:43Stavros Halkias?

  At the Planet Fitness in Queens, there were guys that would just take showers in jeans.

• 1:24:46Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. Oh, in jeans?

• 1:24:47Stavros Halkias?

  In jeans, bro. I don't know what was going on, but I caught, that happened multiple times. I was like, you know what? These guys need this. I'm not, I'm just here to get a, a pump at a reasonable price. I will never use the showers. I'm not gonna.

• 1:25:01Speaker 03

  Planet Fitness had really good, uh, they had really good, uh, what's the word? Visibility during the New Year, New Year's Day. Do you notice that? They like, they like sponsored the entire event.

• 1:25:11Stavros Halkias?

  I did Caroline's one time, the New Year's, just because you, it was like a way to get to Times Square without having to do anything. Cause you, you know, you want to do it once, right?

• 1:25:19Speaker 03

  You did it?

• 1:25:20Stavros Halkias?

  I did it, I did.

• 1:25:21Speaker 03

  I want to do it once.

• 1:25:22Stavros Halkias?

  It was, uh, it was fun, but I mean, it was just like, you know, whatever, just kind of crowded. The shows were horrible. New Year's shows are always the worst. People think they want to go to a comedy show, they don't. They just want to get drunk.

• 1:25:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course.

• 1:25:32Stavros Halkias?

  But they give you a little Planet Fitness top hat. Planet Fitness is everywhere. You know, the business model's working.

• 1:25:37Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:25:38Stavros Halkias?

  It's a good play, it's a good play, hit the elliptical.

• 1:25:40Speaker 03

  Never been a part of a gym.

• 1:25:41Stavros Halkias?

  Never.

• 1:25:42Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:25:42Stavros Halkias?

  No. I could, I'm not shocked.

• 1:25:47Stavros Halkias?

  I'm not floored by that revelation.

• 1:25:49Speaker 03

  There's a, there's a, Diddy Ramone wrote a book called lobotomy and there's a section where he tries to like, get in shape or like body build. It's funny.

• 1:25:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:57Speaker 03

  It's not, you don't want to see a guy like that at the gym.

• 1:25:59Stavros Halkias?

  No, no.

• 1:25:59Speaker 03

  You don't want to see a guy like me at the gym.

• 1:26:00Stavros Halkias?

  No, no. No, again, two extremes.

• 1:26:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:26:03Stavros Halkias?

  Fat guys do get a little credit because people, sometimes fat guys can delude themselves and think they're strong just because they're fat.

• 1:26:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:26:09Stavros Halkias?

  And there are powerlifters that are fatter and are stronger. So it's like, you get a little, actually, I do think this is something that skinny guys don't get credit for. It is easier to be a fat guy in the gym than a skinny guy in the gym.

• 1:26:20Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 1:26:21Stavros Halkias?

  I feel like in the gym, the skinny guy is actually the lowest person on the totem pole.

• 1:26:25Speaker 03

  It's like, what do you, yeah, exactly. You're weak.

• 1:26:27Stavros Halkias?

  There's some respect to the fat guy. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:26:29Speaker 03

  Weakling.

• 1:26:30Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 1:26:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, there was, you're like, oh shit, good for you, man.

• 1:26:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or maybe he's jacked, maybe he's strong as fuck. Maybe he can fucking, you know, fat guys love doing like a-

• 1:26:38Speaker 03

  You're talking about just deadlift. You're talking about the weight section.

• 1:26:40Stavros Halkias?

  I'm talking about, all of it, all of it though. But there's a, there's a weight-

• 1:26:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, I feel like, you remember in Seinfeld, the, the, the father and son who always think they can outlift Jerry?

• 1:26:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

• 1:26:51Speaker 03

  And they always throw their back out. I feel like, I am the old dad.

• 1:26:55Stavros Halkias?

  Well, that's me. I literally have a fucking heating pad because I tried a deadlift that I was not prepared for. It was nothing crazy. It was just a ca- you know what it was? It was a cable deadlift that I wasn't familiar with how it-

• 1:27:05Speaker 03

  How much, how many weights though? What are we talking about?

• 1:27:07Stavros Halkias?

  It's like a hundred pounds or something?

• 1:27:08Speaker 03

  That's nothing.

• 1:27:09Stavros Halkias?

  Nothing. But it was like, uh, first of all, you've never even fucking been to a gym. So what the fuck are you talking about? It's nothing.

• 1:27:15Speaker 03

  I'm looking at you, I'm assuming you're strong. I'm assuming you're strong.

• 1:27:18Stavros Halkias?

  We both fell into that trap.

• 1:27:20Speaker 03

  But we just, I'm assuming you're strong.

• 1:27:21Stavros Halkias?

  I'm not strong. I'm fat as shit. You don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.

• 1:27:26Speaker 03

  I could lift the bar. Yeah, I could do the bar.

• 1:27:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I, I got, I was overzealous. I wanted to get in the zone, but I'll be back there. I'll be back there. I am, my plan is to like, I, I have a goal to get, I want to be like 240, which is still chubby guy. That's just the, the right amount of visc- there's a kind of fat in like your heart you gotta get rid of. I get under that.

• 1:27:49Speaker 03

  I'm so bad with weight, I don't even know what 240 looks like.

• 1:27:51Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, it would look like, uh, 50 pounds less than what I am now.

• 1:27:54Speaker 03

  I don't know what 50 pounds looks like.

• 1:27:57Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, but anyway, it's just like a chubby guy, basically. Nothing crazy. And then, I, like we said, I want, I gotta get those bouncer arms.

• 1:28:03Speaker 03

  The pythons.

• 1:28:03Stavros Halkias?

  After that, I'm gonna go pythons, I'm gonna do whatever fucking... Not steroids, but something, you know what I mean? Something to juice it up, you know, just to get the arms going nice. We'll get there. Bald pony, jacked arms, dude. You won't be able to tell me shit. I might dye my hair blonde.

• 1:28:20Speaker 03

  That's so sick. It's kinda reminds me of the record exec in Wayne's World.

• 1:28:24Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:28:26Speaker 03

  You know what I'm talking about?

• 1:28:26Stavros Halkias?

  I do, I do, I do. The bald pony, I'm trying to single-handedly bring back.

• 1:28:30Speaker 03

  That's so sick.

• 1:28:31Stavros Halkias?

  Um, I'm trying to keep it, I had to cut it for Begonia, or else it'd be like, dude, bat, middle of my back right now.

• 1:28:37Speaker 03

  You would do a pony?

• 1:28:37Stavros Halkias?

  That's the goal. I gotta get the bald pony. We're close, we're really close. I got a small one. But I needed a little more, you know, I need a little more hang time on that thing.

• 1:28:44Speaker 03

  I like the down, like it down.

• 1:28:46Stavros Halkias?

  That, down's not bad either, yeah. No, I'm, I'm loving this. Thank God, the pandemic was the only reason I grew my hair out, and I think we can all say it was worth it.

• 1:28:53Speaker 03

  Great.

• 1:28:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:28:54Speaker 03

  I love it.

• 1:28:55Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, a couple more, and then, I don't wanna keep you forever, this is fun as shit, though.

• 1:28:59Speaker 03

  What time is it?

• 1:29:00Stavros Halkias?

  2:45. Sorry, Eldon. You gotta go? Okay, we can wrap it up.

• 1:29:04Speaker 03

  I got a 3 o'clock, I gotta go somewhere.

• 1:29:05Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, fuck, alright, well, that's the, that's the podcast.

• 1:29:08Speaker 03

  Let's do one more.

• 1:29:08Stavros Halkias?

  One more, let, one more phone.

• 1:29:10Speaker 03

  I probably shouldn't even do one more.

• 1:29:12Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, dude, let's not do it. You gotta go. You already have to go.

• 1:29:14Speaker 03

  I gotta be somewhere.

• 1:29:15Stavros Halkias?

  Uh...

• 1:29:15Speaker 03

  I didn't even realize, we've been there a long time.

• 1:29:17Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it was, we were just fucking around. This was so fun. Go watch Marty's, the movie's Marty Supreme, go watch it. I loved it, my favorite movie of the year.

• 1:29:24Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 1:29:25Stavros Halkias?

  So good.

• 1:29:26Speaker 03

  Thank you for having me.

• 1:29:26Stavros Halkias?

  Absolutely, and if you don't, if you haven't seen Josh's stuff before, all, I mean, your movies are great.

• 1:29:31Speaker 03

  Come check me out at Planet Fitness.

• 1:29:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, he's, we're gonna sign him up, he'll be fine, he'll be dead, he'll see what 100 pounds of deadlifting is. Uh, but yeah, check out the movie, thanks for listening, guys, we'll talk, oh, that's not bad, alright, you're straining.

• 1:29:45Stavros Halkias?

  See you next time, guys, bye.

• 1:29:47Speaker 03

  Later.

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• 1:30:27Stavros Halkias?

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